Hot Mic Catches Jesse Jackson Hammering Obama; Jackson Apologizes
Apparently unaware of a hot microphone, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, made a crude and disparaging remark along the lines of wanting to rip Obama’s genitals off in reference to how Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., might be alienating African-Americans with various moral instructions.
Jackson has issued this apology, saying: "For any harm or hurt that this hot mic private conversation may have caused, I apologize. My support for Senator Obama’s campaign is wide, deep and unequivocal. I cherish this redemptive and historical moment. My appeal was for the moral content of his message to not only deal with the personal and moral responsibility of black males, but to deal with the collective moral responsibility of government and the public policy which would be a corrective action for the lack of good choices that often led to their irresponsibility."
Concluded Jackson: "That was the context of my private conversation and it does not reflect any disparagement on my part for the historic event in which we are involved or my pride in Senator Barack Obama, who is leading it, whom I have supported by crisscrossing this nation in every level of media and audience from the beginning in absolute terms."
The Obama campaign has no plans to respond as of now.
But here’s something you don’t see every day.
Rep. Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., D-Ill. just released the following statement as a reaction to the crude and disparaging remarks his father — the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.
Says Jackson JUNIOR in a statement: "I’m deeply outraged and disappointed in Reverend Jackson’s reckless statements about Senator Barack Obama. His divisive and demeaning comments about the presumptive Democratic nominee — and I believe the next president of the United States — contradict his inspiring and courageous career. Instead of tearing others down, Barack Obama wants to build the country up and bring people together so that we can move forward, together — as one nation. The remarks like those uttered on Fox by Revered Jackson do not advance the campaign’s cause of building a more perfect Union."
Concludes Rep. Jackson, Jr.: "Revered Jackson is my dad and I’ll always love him. He should know how hard that I’ve worked for the last year and a half as a national co-chair of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. So, I thoroughly reject and repudiate his ugly rhetoric. He should keep hope alive and any personal attacks and insults to himself."
The Obama campaign issued a statement late Wednesday, accepting the apology but continuing the underlying message.
"As someone who grew up without a father in the home, Senator Obama has spoken and written for many years about the issue of parental responsibility, including the importance of fathers participating in their children’s lives. He also discusses our responsibility as a society to provide jobs, justice, and opportunity for all. He will continue to speak out about our responsibilities to ourselves and each other, and he of course accepts Reverend Jackson’s apology," said spokesman Bill Burton.
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Posted by: geevill | July 9, 2008, 4:36 pm 4:36 pm
Obama thinks he is the political Jesus, and it is only natural for him to lecture the black community on his morals learned in the past 20 years from his good reverend Wright.
Jesse? Jesse should go back to school, attending trinity.
Posted by: skinny dog | July 9, 2008, 4:38 pm 4:38 pm
… wide, deep and unequivocal.
— Jesse Jackson
Posted by: skinny dog | July 9, 2008, 4:38 pm 4:38 pm
Jesse always speaks the truth in private.
Posted by: fact check | July 9, 2008, 4:41 pm 4:41 pm
I wonder exactly what the Good Reverend had to say, and what moral instructions are offensive?
still looking for the new politics
Posted by: flyover | July 9, 2008, 4:43 pm 4:43 pm
wow if we have learned nothing else about from this election season its that it has gone on TOO LOOOONNNGGGG!!! I was seriously pumped at the beginning… now getting more and more tired of it.
Posted by: matt w. | July 9, 2008, 4:44 pm 4:44 pm
When you are getting hit from all sides, including your base, then you know that you are on the right side. Those that said Obama panders to blacks, now say Rev. Jackson is speaking the truth. Okay. This makes sense.
Posted by: Kevin | July 9, 2008, 4:45 pm 4:45 pm
Wright
Jackson
Sharpen
All Left Radicals are supporting and look at the words they use
Posted by: john | July 9, 2008, 4:45 pm 4:45 pm
.. Those that said Obama panders to blacks, now say Rev. Jackson is speaking the truth.
Posted by: Kevin | Jul 9, 2008 4:45:07 PM
===
He panders when he needs them, actually their votes. He throw them away, in whatever forms, when it fits his present agenda.
Wright helped him 20 years, even helped selling his book by giving it a title. Trinity Church helped him for 20 years, to get him into politics, as a step stone. Now, he disowned his “uncle” and quit trinity, simply to pander You, the voters.
Without loyalty for good and bad time, he is simply not trust worthy.
Posted by: lazy to think | July 9, 2008, 4:50 pm 4:50 pm
Sounds to me like Jackson is blaming the government for the failures of the black community. Help like this, Obama doesn’t need, but I think it’s important that we have the discussion. Of course, Obama doesn’t intend to discuss it – he wants us to “talk amongst ourselves” while he straddles both sides of every issue!
Posted by: HoosierSue | July 9, 2008, 4:51 pm 4:51 pm
“Jesse always speaks the truth in private.”
Right on, Jesse!
Jesse Jackson should have endorsed John Edwards, and I for one hope to God Jesse will OFFICIALLY dis-endorse The One.
Posted by: Belle Starr | July 9, 2008, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm
What was the quote??
Posted by: Tom | July 9, 2008, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm
What will happen now?
The Reverend Jesse Jackson has dared to comment without praise to the “Most Merciful Lord Barack Obama!”
The good Reverend Jackson even made a “disparaging and crude” remark about someone’s body parts!
But, as with any good foot soldier of the Socialist left, Reverend Jackson humbled himself and explained his “disparaging and crude” remarks about Most Merciful Lord Barack Obama.
What a joke!
Posted by: Jayhawk | July 9, 2008, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm
Can’t wait to hear what Don Imus has to say about it.
Posted by: Pattypye | July 9, 2008, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm
Obama keeps going off the plan, he is not suppose to direct anything at the black community, which he has lately. I am sure that is what got jackson upset.
Obama is a tool to get what the black community wants. He is suppose to make it look like he is trying to help all americans. To insure getting elected.
Jackson, sharpton and wright have all waited to long, vested to much time and money for Obama to screw it up by going away from the game plan.
Thank you Mr Jackson for confirming that for all of us.
Posted by: seah | July 9, 2008, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm
My God, does that man even stop to take a breath when he’s speaking? How annoying. Really though, who gives a crap about what Jesse Jackson thinks? And talking about genitals? Nice talk for a “reverend”.
I really wish someone would send Jesse and Al Sharpton off to a deserted island somewhere. Let them talk each other to death and give the rest of us some peace!
Posted by: lamcshef | July 9, 2008, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm
REVEREND Jesse Jackson????
Posted by: Kirt | July 9, 2008, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm
Even Jackson does not like OBAMA
Remember what Wright said
“HE HAS TO SAY WHAT POLITICIAN HAS TO SAY”
Internet Addicted kids have no idea who they are supporting
Posted by: john | July 9, 2008, 5:01 pm 5:01 pm
obama has no cojones. hillary does. mccain does. thats what jackson was saying i bet.
Posted by: ron | July 9, 2008, 5:04 pm 5:04 pm
Total non issue. Jackson hasn’t been relevant since 1984.
Posted by: Howard, NY | July 9, 2008, 5:04 pm 5:04 pm
I’m interested in becoming a “compassionate conservative.” Where do I go to become a racist?
Posted by: Reason | July 9, 2008, 5:05 pm 5:05 pm
Please, someone give these clowns the boot and get them off the National stage; EMBARRASSING!
Posted by: tminu | July 9, 2008, 5:06 pm 5:06 pm
Rev. Jackson says crude things about Barack Obama…instant coverage. MCain says crude things about teenage daughter of President…cannot be allowed.
Posted by: ricky | July 9, 2008, 5:07 pm 5:07 pm
Did Jesse say “testicular fortitude” (a phrase which when applied to Clinton was broadcast everywhere), or something more colorful?? Or did Jackson — as John Edwards before him, along with millions of lesser-knowns — refer to The One as a p-word?
And why in the name of heaven did The One put his children on teevee?
Posted by: Belle Starr | July 9, 2008, 5:07 pm 5:07 pm
Rev. Jackson deserved that. They betray Clinton just for the color of the skin. Now,look what happened to them. Sen Obama lecture them for their moral code. What’s new?
Posted by: maleasiansmoker | July 9, 2008, 5:07 pm 5:07 pm
I don’t understand what he’s talking about..?
Posted by: catleya | July 9, 2008, 5:10 pm 5:10 pm
Didn’t Jesse Jackson also accuse Obama of acting white during the primaries, with friends like these who needs enemies.
Posted by: Kardasia_Prime | July 9, 2008, 5:10 pm 5:10 pm
That’s the difference between Jesse Jackson and Barark Obama. Jesse Jackson is a black man that thinks the world owes black people something and he has a sense of entitlement.
Barack Obama is a unifier and a black man that is able to look past race without having a chip on his shoulder.
Posted by: TampaJoey | July 9, 2008, 5:11 pm 5:11 pm
Not to worry. There is absolutely nothing that an Obama follower could discover about him that would turn them off. They’re already making excuses before the full facts of the story have even come out.
Posted by: bb | July 9, 2008, 5:11 pm 5:11 pm
Jayhawk – yeah, after watching the foot soldiers of the Right and Mainstreammedia bow and make nice with the Bush administration for the last 7 + years, it’s still sucks, no matter who is doing it! Perhaps personal / professional accountability IS dead…
Posted by: Oaktree | July 9, 2008, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm
REV Jackson? When’s the last time YOUR preacher/pastor/priest said something so FTC-banned that no media organization can even divulge the actual statement? Way to go Rev.
Posted by: blogger90210 | July 9, 2008, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm
what difference does it make, what the comment was, I think the big picture and question is, how all of the well known african american leaders, (the ones who had ancestors who were actually slaves, and came up through the civil rights era in america,unlike obama) have just laid down for this guy, the most people who will be left behind during an obama presidency the black people-are the main ones who got him elected. A duping is bad enough, but a duping by one of your so called own is horrible.
If obama had been working in the black community all along, we would have known him, instead of after he won iowa, in the black community he was obama who?
and is he black?
and if jesse jackson or anyone else is supporting obama,just because he is black, knowing full well he is NOT qualified to be POTUS, is unamerican. and I for one, seeing the first black president even though he is not qualified, will not be good history making, look at condi rice.
she was the first black, and since she was hitched to bush and co., no one cares about the history she has made. and what she and her crew have done since they have been in office, after they are gone, their names and what they did, should be spoken no more.
just let them retire from public life so we will not have to hear and see them again.
Posted by: RUMMY | July 9, 2008, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm
Obama and his racist cronies are exposed for the creeps they are.Mccain for president
Posted by: jack | July 9, 2008, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm
Jesse Jackson should be ashame of himself. I was taught, If you can’t say anything well of a person; then don’t say a thing at all. Jesse should be so contrite that he would censor himself. Why does he think Sen.Obama owes the African American community anything especially anything related to the reproductive system. Shame on the so call man of the cloth?
Posted by: Ruby Hill-Benjamin | July 9, 2008, 5:15 pm 5:15 pm
Now we need to add Jesse to the growing list of people thrown under the bus. I really think it’s time for people to wake up to what a joke Obama is.
Posted by: NeverObama | July 9, 2008, 5:15 pm 5:15 pm
why is it important WHAT he said?
the point is there is some dissatisfaction with obama in the black community.
what he said is not important,
why he said it is.
Posted by: RUMMY | July 9, 2008, 5:15 pm 5:15 pm
He is still ticked off he isn’t the one making history as the first black Presidential nominee. He is old news even among the black community….. unless a person of color breaks the law and needs press. Remember the Duke “rape” victim? Jesse was in her corner, sending her to school. Remember she had everyone else’s sperm (and a baby) in her pants except any of the Duke Lacrosse team. Jesse Jackson is a man of principle. Just not good ones.
Posted by: Jake | July 9, 2008, 5:17 pm 5:17 pm
I LOVE it! The good Rev. turns on the evil Snob-ama. It’s nice to get a glimpse of what his supporters REALLY think about Obama and what they say in private.
Posted by: JacksonMI | July 9, 2008, 5:18 pm 5:18 pm
This is a very vague report. Both in respect to what Jackson said and its context, and then his explanation.
Posted by: kat | July 9, 2008, 5:18 pm 5:18 pm
I was a Jesse Jackson delegate once, but I think the man does a great disservice to put down Obama for speaking the truth. Yes, there are other truths to tell as well, but Obama’s courage in telling it like it is to young blacks is refreshing. His message is just as pertinent for kids of all colors. Tough love works.
Posted by: obamamama | July 9, 2008, 5:19 pm 5:19 pm
What exactly did he say?
Posted by: Justme | July 9, 2008, 5:19 pm 5:19 pm
WHAT he said is NOT important,
WHY he said it IS.
Posted by: RUMMY | July 9, 2008, 5:19 pm 5:19 pm
Jesse Jackson has a right to speak his mind – he shouldn’t be required to apologize for his remarks. I’ve always admired Jesse Jackson for the work that he does, it saddens me that he didn’t stand behind his comments. You can still support someone without agreeing with every word they say.
Posted by: Missy M | July 9, 2008, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm
Hey: why didn’t anybody mention, at the time, that Samantha whoosie, who got in so much trouble for outing Obama’s shifty intentions on Iraq, helped him write “his” book, “The Audacity of Hope”?
Posted by: Edgar Cayce | July 9, 2008, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm
Jesse Jackson is a bigger fraud and joke than Obama! Always blaming everyone else for the black man’s problem, and refusing to endorse personal responsibility within the black community. Give us a break! If you want to hear more of this crap in the future, vote for Obama and we will be constantly exposed to this for the next four years…
Posted by: Cy Brown | July 9, 2008, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm
Yawn. Isn’t it November yet?
Posted by: Melanie | July 9, 2008, 5:21 pm 5:21 pm
What he said is going to be broadcast all over the news tonight. Just waiting for prime-time. Pop the popcorn and hold on
Posted by: Terry | July 9, 2008, 5:21 pm 5:21 pm
Obama is a racist, left wing, radical and if we follow him, we follow him off the edge of a big cliff.
Posted by: John LaPorte | July 9, 2008, 5:22 pm 5:22 pm
I am no supporter of Obama, but what he said on Father’s Day is true. Rev. Jackson and others are just hurt because someone finally said it.
Obama the politician uses people and then throws them under his crowded bus.
WOW!! is this really a shock!
Rev. Jackson was not sorry for making those comments, he is sorry he got caught..Ha, Ha.FUNNY!!
Posted by: Chris | July 9, 2008, 5:23 pm 5:23 pm
missy m,
the reason jackson, had to say he was sorry was because, the word went out a long time back,
“Don’t say anything against obama”
and although jesse may have been voicing displeasure all the time about obama behind the scene. It was truly a slip up for it to get out publicly,
and since it did,
he had to say sorry.
because although not intentional-the code was broken.
Posted by: RUMMY | July 9, 2008, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm
As I hear it, Jesse has problems with senator Obama moralizing to crowds. Excuse me, Rev. Jackson…wasn’t it you who was at the side of Bill Clinton offering him counsel and prayer as he weathered the Lewinsky scandal and impeachment? Was it not you who brought the woman with whom you were having an affair to the White House? I believe that it was you who fathered a child out of wedlock, was it not?
“Let he who is without sin cast the first stone!”
Posted by: Robbin Annette Moore | July 9, 2008, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm
If Jesse Jackson is annoyed, Obama must be saying something right.
Posted by: EM | July 9, 2008, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm
“What exactly did he say?”
Indeed. This being “black-on-black” political commentary, it’s hard to see how it would be “racist” to report the phrase.
Did Jesse call The One a sissy, or what?
Posted by: Edgar Cayce | July 9, 2008, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm
Remember the initial lukewarm at best reaction to Obama’s candidacy by Jackson and Sharpton? It was foreseeable then, and is plain as day now, that Obama’s candidacy has started a sea change.
It does not take a genius to figure out whether professional victimologists, Gloria Allreds of the race relations field, are going to be happy about their increasing irrelevancy as more people realize they do better when they focus on bettering their own personal situations instead of making halfhearted efforts and justifying their inaction to themselves by focusing on their victim status.
It is going to be a bit harder to maintain the victim mentality, much less preach it, after a black man comes out of nowhere and beats out a lot of politically much better connected white folks for a shot at the White House, isn’t it??
Shame on you Al and Jessie, you should be rejoicing, and using Obama’s getting this far to spearhead a new message of making personal responsibility priority one instead of dismissing it as a sideshow.
Posted by: ToastOnDayOne | July 9, 2008, 5:26 pm 5:26 pm
Me thinks Jesse doesn’t think Barack is black enough. Hmm.
Posted by: tom | July 9, 2008, 5:26 pm 5:26 pm
I tell you. Reading many of the comments here lets me know that racism runs so deep in America that most people don’t even realize the fact of the matter. Obama is human. Jesse Jackson is human. Black people are always judged differently from the white majority. Listen to your comments, white people. You all hate this man not for what he’s saying but you believe a black man should not be in this position; who does it think he is? You ask yourselves. He is a man, a human, who happens to be born to a black father and a white mother. Get over it already. Why do you have to make comments insinuating that Obama is arrogant. You never said Reagan, Nixon, Kennedy nor Bush was arrogant.
Posted by: photopatt | July 9, 2008, 5:27 pm 5:27 pm
One thing for sure is you will hear more and more about Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson in the Media after Obama’s Presidential inauguration. Congratulation President Obama…..
Posted by: crookedpolitician | July 9, 2008, 5:27 pm 5:27 pm
I’m not a fan of Obama, but I continue to be astonished at the stupidity of the pro-McCain folks who stalk public forums to push their candidate, regardless of the context. McCain is a perverted, immoral fool, in the same vein as Bush – a man so stupid that he jokes about bombing foreign countries and killing their citizens with cigarette exports. It’s hard to imagine that an individual like McCain would have any chance in almost any other developed country in the world. Perhaps in some tyrant-run African nation or the Middle East – but – could anyone seriously imagine a person making such comments and being considered a viable candidate in a developed nation? Obama was not high on my list, and I do not intend to vote for him, but only a twisted, immoral fool could vote for garbage like McCain. The same perverts who suuport unjustifiable wars of agression and cheer on immoral wastage of national resources on perverse military adventures – the pro-big-governemnt, small-minded followers of the neo-conservative movement.
Posted by: Bob | July 9, 2008, 5:28 pm 5:28 pm
If Obama wants to come across as legit, which he’s not, the last thing he should have done was be photographed with the king racist Jesse Jackson, what’s next… Al Sharpton??
Posted by: Ray Richards | July 9, 2008, 5:28 pm 5:28 pm
I can just see it that Jesse is so jealous of Obama. He wishes he was well-loved by the masses. While Jesse is a divider, Obama is a uniter.
Posted by: Marvin Jones | July 9, 2008, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm
“the reason jackson, had to say he was sorry was because, the word went out a long time back, ‘Don’t say anything against obama’”
The reason Jesse had to say he was sorry is that Jesse JR. has a biiig position in The One’s gang, er, campaign.
Posted by: Belle Starr | July 9, 2008, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm
I tell you. Reading many of the comments here lets me know that racism runs so deep in America that most people don’t even realize the fact of the matter. Obama is human. Jesse Jackson is human. Black people are always judged differently from the white majority. Listen to your comments, white people. You all hate this man not for what he’s saying but you believe a black man should not be in this position; who does it think he is? You ask yourselves. He is a man, a human, who happens to be born to a black father and a white mother. Get over it already. Why do you have to make comments insinuating that Obama is arrogant. You never said Reagan, Nixon, Kennedy nor Bush was arrogant.
Posted by: Pat Hendricks Munson | July 9, 2008, 5:31 pm 5:31 pm
Does anyone know what the hell he said? We’re all talking about a statement made by Jackson, but no one even knows what he said.
Posted by: David Branch | July 9, 2008, 5:31 pm 5:31 pm
“The Obama campaign has no plans to respond as of now”???
Jesse Jackson apologized; that’s enough.
Posted by: Mark Webb | July 9, 2008, 5:31 pm 5:31 pm
AMERICA PLEASE WAKE UP. I AM TIRED OF THE DIRTY POLITICS WE PLAY AND SMEAR EACH OTHER IT’S TIME FOR US TO SHOW THE WORLD AMERICA HAS CLASS AND WILL RUN A GOOD CAMPAIGN FOR THE NEW GENERATION TO FOLLOW, AND WE WILL BE BETTER LOOKED AT IN THE EYES OF THE WORLD
Posted by: Dolly Long Legs | July 9, 2008, 5:31 pm 5:31 pm
Bob, talk about stalking! Just savor the moment, Jesse just kicked Obama in the butt.
Posted by: Steve | July 9, 2008, 5:32 pm 5:32 pm
Oh I see that Jesse Jackson, has been treated like a joke by the public, and the press for years, and now you want to listen or care what he says?
I say that Obama might be taking some of Jesse’s talking points, political thunder out from under him.
Posted by: Thinking | July 9, 2008, 5:32 pm 5:32 pm
Guess even Obama’s friends flip-flop.
Posted by: Ex-Dem | July 9, 2008, 5:32 pm 5:32 pm
the arrogance came from see someone one with just a little more than zero to his credit, and now wants to be president.
if colin powell had run for president, no one would be calling him arrogant.
obama does not line up in behind kennedy,nixon, reagan, and clinton.
they all a bit more political resume’ than obama,
that is why he is called arrogant.
not because he is a black man
Posted by: RUMMY | July 9, 2008, 5:32 pm 5:32 pm
Jesse’s pretty hip: I doubt he actually broadcast his remark “by accident”.
Posted by: Belle Starr | July 9, 2008, 5:32 pm 5:32 pm
Photoplatt: How do you know that I never said that Nixon, Reagan and Bush weren arrogant? Who are you to know me? As a matter of fact, I’ve said worse about those three. Obama is not yet President, as the others were and are. So, why would you even compare him to them yet? And just for the record, you don’t do Obama any good service by including his name with those three.
Posted by: Nettie | July 9, 2008, 5:33 pm 5:33 pm
Jackson is a genuine hero; but it is Obama’s moment.
Let’s get together and win.
Posted by: Mark Webb | July 9, 2008, 5:34 pm 5:34 pm
Thanks, tminu for the info. All I can say to that is Ouch!
Posted by: Melanie | July 9, 2008, 5:34 pm 5:34 pm
Jesse and Al have made a living of telling blacks they don’t have to be responsible – because whatever the problem, it’s all whitey’s fault.
Huh, How’d Jesse’s Presidential Bid work out?
Posted by: jim | July 9, 2008, 5:34 pm 5:34 pm
One cistern deserves another.
Posted by: yomama | July 9, 2008, 5:35 pm 5:35 pm
My god! So much hatred
I sincerely agree with what I feel that
Rev Jackson. Obama should talk about what he will do to help all communties
and realize that their is great Black
dads raising their families. Please stop
thowing all black dads in the same barrel. We have beautiful and intelligent black, stop making it sound
as if we are all from another planet.
Posted by: dorothy bennett | July 9, 2008, 5:35 pm 5:35 pm
I don’t hate Jesse but I don’t see how this is bad for Obama. I still remember that during his presidential run he was on Saturday Night Live and in reference to finding reasons why he should not win said this joke:
“If Jesse Jackson walked on water you know what the press would say: Jesse Jackson can’t swim.”
Posted by: Last Call | July 9, 2008, 5:38 pm 5:38 pm
If his SUPPORTERS think he’s a tool, why should we elect him?
Posted by: Jerry | July 9, 2008, 5:38 pm 5:38 pm
jesse and mics. bill clinton and mics. john mccain and mics. gw bush and mics. condi rice and mics. putin and mics
thank goodness for mics
Posted by: dl | July 9, 2008, 5:38 pm 5:38 pm
I think it is a shame that this all boils down to race. Jesse Jackson has what we call foot in mouth disease and he has had it for years. I am only 24 years old and have seen enough of this man sticking his nose in other peoples business and blaming everyone else except the actual culprit. Jesse Jackson makes situation racial that shouldn’t be. I was not an Obama supporter, but I am slowly becoming one. This is just another tyraid of Jesse Jackson because the big political figure didn’t do everything he told him too. Therefore he turns around and insults someone only making himself look like the fool.
One more thing. I think it is a shame to have such a hatred for a presidential candidate. Whether or not the person we believe is the better choice wins, we should give either of them a chance to make this country better. Its still a better place to live than most and if you don’t like it leave. We don’t need people here that don’t believe in the foundation of our country. I am proud to be an American and I will always support our government even if I strongly dislike the president.
Posted by: Summer | July 9, 2008, 5:39 pm 5:39 pm
Write in Hillary the other two are flip sides of the (far) right and left sides of the same coin, losers both.
Posted by: yomama | July 9, 2008, 5:39 pm 5:39 pm
I still don’t understand what he actually said.
Was it a very bad statement of Jesse Jackson which Jake could not even put on this blog?
Posted by: catleya | July 9, 2008, 5:39 pm 5:39 pm
Rev. Jackson, Rev. Wright, and Fr. Pfleger, what a group. This shows the lack of good judgement by Obama.
Posted by: Jerry | July 9, 2008, 5:41 pm 5:41 pm
Mr. Joseph Weaver presented this pearl of wisdom to us all: “It is a fact that that blaCK MEN DO NOT SUPPORT THEIR CHILDREN.” Gee, I wonder who has been supporting *mine* all these years? I guess I’d better let my kids know this fact, I’m sure they’ll be shocked!
Posted by: Aaron | July 9, 2008, 5:42 pm 5:42 pm
Not a whole lot of unity on the Obama side. That’s leaves one real option for Victory – HRC 2008
Posted by: 2008voter | July 9, 2008, 5:42 pm 5:42 pm
“Let’s get together and win.”
Uh, “win” WHAT? What you’re fixing to win is the end of the Democratic Party, in favor of a “post-partisan” corporate figurehead who stammers and blushes and doesn’t know where he stands on anything
Posted by: Edgar Cayce | July 9, 2008, 5:42 pm 5:42 pm
This is beautiful .. well America – we now know this “puppet” will be ran by Wright, Phlegm (sigh), and dear old Jesse! I think that clarifies for a lot of people .. whom to vote for!
Posted by: CJ | July 9, 2008, 5:43 pm 5:43 pm
Fool me once……
Guess the benefit of doubt I had about his true relationship with his church and minister have evaporated. Obviously, he was just pulling the wool over my eyes……..and millions of others.
Posted by: Shame on me | July 9, 2008, 5:44 pm 5:44 pm
as a species we tend to speak our minds and feelings honestly when not in public, and the “hot mike” proves that fact.
Posted by: kathleen | July 9, 2008, 5:44 pm 5:44 pm
“Grow a pair” sounds close enough…
Posted by: Jake | July 9, 2008, 5:45 pm 5:45 pm
Could be a deliberate act to try and show distance between Obama and the old Black guard (Jackson, Sharpton, et al.) to try and make BHO look even more centrist, which is his most recent campaign strategy. Trying to get those angry, gun toting, bible-clingers to come to his side perhaps?
Posted by: DonG | July 9, 2008, 5:47 pm 5:47 pm
Is it just me, or does Obama seem more and more like a peon?
Posted by: Larry Waller | July 9, 2008, 5:47 pm 5:47 pm
Well,
Hillary lost her cajones to Barack so he has an extra pair for Jesse to acquire.
Funny
Posted by: Nat Turner | July 9, 2008, 5:48 pm 5:48 pm
What’s the secret, Jesse? No, you wish Hillary was the nominee…
Posted by: Jr. | July 9, 2008, 5:49 pm 5:49 pm
Jackson is not a person who can lay claim to anyting anymore. Retire and let the new generation of change take hold. Your arrogant bigoted remarks are not welcome. afterall we knew all along that you were a racist. that is why your so called rainbow coalition is such a joke. It just made you a person who didn’t have to work…just run his mout …..As you are still doing
Posted by: jack883 | July 9, 2008, 5:49 pm 5:49 pm
Jesse Jackson is a racist, period. If McCain appeared in a photo with the head of the Ku Klux Klan, he could say, “So what, Obama appeared with Jesse Jackson.” This man who has more than one illegitimate child by more than one woman and who called a Jewish section of New York “Hymietown” is worried about Obama’s morality?
Posted by: Mickey | July 9, 2008, 5:50 pm 5:50 pm
The reason that Jesse said those things is because he knows that once BHO becomes president – should he be elected – that there is no room for him. Think about it. Who wants an African American protester, a la Jesse Jackson, invited to your event/protest/blockade/speech/stampede (whatever you want to call it) when you can have an african american president show up. *Jesse’s had his run but he has to let another generation step to the front.
Posted by: 2008voter | July 9, 2008, 5:50 pm 5:50 pm
Does Jesse Jackson have any credibility with ANYONE anymore? This man has to be one of the biggest fools that the American public has ever had to suffer. He calls himself a reverend, and he criticizes Obama for “lecturing” black people about MORALITY. I might halfway begin to respect Obama if he would denounce “reverend” Jackson and “reverend” Sharpton and their divisive, “everything wrong with this country is the white man’s fault” rhetoric.
Posted by: bcwhite750 | July 9, 2008, 5:51 pm 5:51 pm
All of the sudden, Hillary looks better.
Posted by: Josh | July 9, 2008, 5:51 pm 5:51 pm
So the word, which according to Webster’s, means any spherical object, falls under usage constraints.
Posted by: kat | July 9, 2008, 5:51 pm 5:51 pm
Jerry,
Rev. Jackson, Rev. Wright and Fr. Pfleger show the lack of good judgement for Rev. Jackson, Rev. Wright and Fr. Pfleger alone.
Either no one you have met, are friends with, acquainted to or a co-worker of in your whole life has ever said any disparaging remarks about anything. If one of them did he must speak for you and illustrate your poor judgment, right?
Posted by: Topher | July 9, 2008, 5:51 pm 5:51 pm
With this one can conclude that, Obama is very weak.
Posted by: FACT | July 9, 2008, 5:53 pm 5:53 pm
I wish those of you still pining for Hillary Clinton could see how truly childish you sound. Crybabies.
Posted by: Soldier | July 9, 2008, 5:53 pm 5:53 pm
Jackson is an idiot.
Posted by: HonestAbe | July 9, 2008, 5:53 pm 5:53 pm
OK. People who aren’t going to vote for Obama think this is horrible for him and reveals some deep crisis.
People who are going to vote for Obama think this is much ado about nothing.
This is why blogging at the end of news stories is worthless. People tell themselves what they want to hear and think it proves something.
Posted by: Puleez | July 9, 2008, 5:53 pm 5:53 pm
Jesse Jackson wanted the VP spot. This would be great, but Richardson would be very disappointed.
Posted by: Julie | July 9, 2008, 5:53 pm 5:53 pm
DonG,
You’re right on the money with that assessment(sp). It would be his sister-soulja moment without having to break a sweat.
*Second point about Obama: He needs to push harder and have his supporters help HRC pay off her campaign debt – they promised. Obama has the lists, the donors, the money, etc. Let’s get on with it start sending in the money. It’s not Obama money or Clinton money – it should be viewed as Democrat Party money.
Posted by: 2008voter | July 9, 2008, 5:56 pm 5:56 pm
I know, but it too disgusting to type and shouldn’t be repeated. Ignore the buffoon.
Posted by: HonestAbe | July 9, 2008, 5:56 pm 5:56 pm
Drudge has it, if you must know. Jackson is scum and should be banned from any further connections with the Obama campaign or the Dem party. Idiot.
Posted by: HonestAbe | July 9, 2008, 5:59 pm 5:59 pm
Poor Obama. From one mishap to another.
Posted by: brigitte | July 9, 2008, 6:00 pm 6:00 pm
Isn’t it amazing how intelligent all the commentors are. Most have a short fuse and a big mouth. Rarely does any comment I have seen posted actually get to the source of an honest answer, or comment. I am white, but it sure is easy to discern one thing for sure in these free-be comments, and that is racial descrimination is alive and well in the good old USA There are good and bad people of every color, why not give a chance to the ones that, so far, have a good record, or would you like to cast the first stone? Obama has more to loose if he is not genuine than any other candidate in the history of our country. It won’t take four years to find out if he is not qualified, and I for one am trying to give him a chance to proove himself to his antagonists, and critics. Moses married and Etheopian woman, and some highly scorned him for that, but God did not. Perhaps you folks who dislike Barak are a little smarter, and more knowledgeable than God. I bet you could straighten out our mess, like Bush and Chaney did. Remember them, you probably voted for them, and regretably, TWICE.
Posted by: t saunders | July 9, 2008, 6:00 pm 6:00 pm
Meanwhile John McCain is still a loser.
Posted by: HonestAbe | July 9, 2008, 6:02 pm 6:02 pm
Thats only one of the reason Mrs. C. King disliked Jackson and prefered not to have any contact with him.
Posted by: youheardme | July 9, 2008, 6:04 pm 6:04 pm
Why isn’t the media calling Obama to task for his recent changes of policy. These changes aren’t just “flip-flops.” When I think of flip-flops, I think of light-as-a-feather shoes I wear to the beach. * BHO has outright comitted fraud! He used issues such as: FISA, Public Financing, Withdrawing Troops “as the situation warrants.” Whatever happended to removing the troops in six-months. He’s just making it up as he goes along. *Ahhh… to live
as an Obama supporter. Ignorance is bliss as they say.
Posted by: 2008voter | July 9, 2008, 6:05 pm 6:05 pm
Interesting. For all the crap Jackson has caused, he still has done some things for the black community. BHO on the other hand has done nothing — local neighborhood activities aside.
Personally, I think Jesse was right on the mark on this one. Still, Obama’s army of idiots defend him (not knowing for sure why).
Posted by: T | July 9, 2008, 6:05 pm 6:05 pm
No respect for Barack Obama it seems..
Posted by: JULIE | July 9, 2008, 6:06 pm 6:06 pm
I smell a set-up
Posted by: Ronnie Wrangler | July 9, 2008, 6:06 pm 6:06 pm
Maybe Jackson wanna be his running mate…..
Posted by: shalom | July 9, 2008, 6:09 pm 6:09 pm
This is for the first time I see how smart Rev. Jackson comment.
Posted by: Gee | July 9, 2008, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm
The media needs to stop allowing people like Jackson to excuse their actions away. This was a very violent statement and should never be used in any public or PRIVATE discussion. When the media allows him to excuse away his statement the way this story did, the story is actually excusing Jackson’s behavior. There are a number of ways to address this and this was the wrong way, ABC.
Posted by: none | July 9, 2008, 6:11 pm 6:11 pm
The funny thing is………..
THIS ACTUALLY HELPS OBAMA!
Thanks Jesse for shoring up Obama’s Juggernaut of Political Prowess!
OBAM 08
Posted by: Nat Turner | July 9, 2008, 6:12 pm 6:12 pm
Just taking note that it is being referred to as a “private comment” not meant to be broadcast? Isn’t it in “private” where we all let our true feelings show? Is the Rev. saying hey, I put on one face when I know I am being watched and recorded but drop the facade and speak my true feelings when the mike goes cold? Something we are all guilty of. But rather than say, “I said it, I feel that way, that’s me” we will start the vicious circle of “it wasn’t meant for you guys to hear” The only positive in the whole mess is that intelligent, reasonable people now know how he feels and use that info for future reference. The biggest negative is that another person who manby admired and supported now bites the dust .
Posted by: Patsy | July 9, 2008, 6:12 pm 6:12 pm
When does this stuff end? Focus on the merits of the candidates, where they stand, on which issues…for once and “for all.”
Posted by: Trusted | July 9, 2008, 6:12 pm 6:12 pm
Why MM, what did I ever do to you?
Posted by: looville | July 9, 2008, 6:12 pm 6:12 pm
I think Jesse Jackson’s true colors came out. Sounds like he is jealous of Obama’s success in light of the fact he never went anywhere on the national political scene. Instead of being happy for his success he is envious.
Next he never had the moral courage to really apologize here. These apologies which start off with ” If I have hurt anyone, I apologize” are not really apologies at all. No guts, no class here.
Posted by: richard warren | July 9, 2008, 6:16 pm 6:16 pm
Just as the ole stale white one dimensional politicians such as McCain have to be changed out, so too does the ole stale African American political despots.
Just watch how Obama handles this one in the typical “Kill em with Kindness” method of punishment.
Good Night Jesse. You won’t be on the Obama’s Christmas list, but it’s all good.
POTUS OBAMA
Posted by: Nat Turner | July 9, 2008, 6:16 pm 6:16 pm
I like the “I love my dad” part of young Jackson’s quote, but, the rest of what he said is trash talk, showing nothing but disdain. Better he should have said nothing than to disparage his father.
Posted by: smith | July 9, 2008, 6:17 pm 6:17 pm
Is Mr. Jesse Jackson making this a racial election issue now?????
Posted by: Piza Pie | July 9, 2008, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm
Thank you Rev. Jackson. No truer words spoken.
Posted by: SadStateOfAffairs | July 9, 2008, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm
All aboard the UNITY train. Ha! Ha! Ha!
PUMA!
Posted by: SadStateOfAffairs | July 9, 2008, 6:21 pm 6:21 pm
Obama is better off without Jesse on his side. Now to get Sharpton to make some similar stupid statement. Obama will be golden!
Posted by: HonestAbe | July 9, 2008, 6:22 pm 6:22 pm
Doean’t this prove how weak Barack Obama really is?
Posted by: sunny | July 9, 2008, 6:22 pm 6:22 pm
Jesse, Sr.
I am black but I CLEARLY understand Obama is running to be president of the USA not black folks. It is time to break the chains of the past and move forward. Obama is trying to show us the way.
We all know the “old guard” of AA “leaders” are angry that Obama is the one. But, isn’t this what they have been trying to accomplish all these years? Now, they want to tear him down because he cannot be boxed into being the “black” president. The NAACP is a prime organization that is suffering under the old guard. They will perish if they do not change.
What has Jesse ever demanded from other presidential candidates (Bill Clinton for example). NOTHING. Thanks Bill Clinton for allowing crack heads to serve more time than coke heads. Thanks all you presidernts for all you have done for black folks. Get over it Jesse.
Posted by: Yurdelite | July 9, 2008, 6:24 pm 6:24 pm
Just as the old stale white one dimensional politicians such as McCain have to be changed out, so too does the old stale African American political despots.
Obama’s got em raging on both sides!
Just watch how Obama handles this one in the typical “Kill em with Kindness” method of punishment.
Good Night Jesse. You won’t be on the Obama’s Christmas list, but it’s all good. You’re on your way out anyways.
POTUS OBAMA
Posted by: Nat Turner | July 9, 2008, 6:27 pm 6:27 pm
The radical black leadership from the 60′s is in it’s last throes. Obama has trumped them and completely overshadowed them. Jackson’s comments today are the final bitter squeals from a dying breed.
Posted by: HonestAbe | July 9, 2008, 6:27 pm 6:27 pm
Yahoo!!
Posted by: fools | July 9, 2008, 6:29 pm 6:29 pm
Jackson and Sharpton and others like them are becoming increasingly irrelevant due to Obama’s popularity among African Americans.
Posted by: HonestAbe | July 9, 2008, 6:31 pm 6:31 pm
Dear Obama: Truth hurt?
Posted by: T | July 9, 2008, 6:33 pm 6:33 pm
COINCIDENCE, COINCIDENCE!!!!
It just happened to be that the only mic that caught is private exchange belongs to FOX News.
As someone said earlier, this smells the set up.
Posted by: Lance D. | July 9, 2008, 6:35 pm 6:35 pm
I hope Obama distances himself even futher from the likes of Jackson and Sharpton. They do more harm than good.
Posted by: HonestAbe | July 9, 2008, 6:35 pm 6:35 pm
I am a passionate Obama supporter, but have never much appreciated Jesse Jackson. I think he is to the African American community what Hillary Clinton is to women. A loud mouth and complete embarrassment. Mr. Obama just can’t seem to win. Seems he’s damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t. Well screw em. Obama’s got my vote in November.
Posted by: jenny | July 9, 2008, 6:39 pm 6:39 pm
AH!! The flaming liberal left wingers that keep the democratic party down continue to hurt it time and time again. If only they would become republicans, the true democrats would again shine brightly!
Posted by: Horton | July 9, 2008, 6:41 pm 6:41 pm
So a son disparages his father’s publically in favor of Obama—shows the type of people that Obama has around him (whatever happened to respect thy elders). Couldn’t the son just tell his father and not make it a soap opera across the US. And, please some one tell Obama to look at the records, “the real records” there are more blacks attending colleges then ever before. The black race has a good footing for success but Obama is blacks down and tearing the races apart, not uniting them.
Posted by: Ann | July 9, 2008, 6:51 pm 6:51 pm
obama and bill cosby say the same thing on this issue. both speak from their heart
Posted by: pirate | July 9, 2008, 6:56 pm 6:56 pm
If you tick off Jesse Jackson, and he says something bad about you, I say that is a GOOD thing. Hold your head up, Obama.
Posted by: A reader in Georgia | July 9, 2008, 6:58 pm 6:58 pm
I think the problem here is that Obama thinks he can cure every problem, eradicate every disease by just talk. He asks us to do something even he cannot do – not to lie. He cannot unify the bloggers on this forums, let alone the country.
Posted by: young_voter | July 9, 2008, 6:58 pm 6:58 pm
This phrase “hot mic” that jesse uses SO many times is very interesting. WHen any politician uses a phrase like this… look out.. its spin. Can i define ‘hot mic’ for you all?
How about.
True Moment.
or.
the REAL Jesse… thats better.
Doesnt every single person on the planet know that the TRUE you is the one at home alone in the dark… or the one who says things when the mic is OFF?
Posted by: Kent J | July 9, 2008, 6:59 pm 6:59 pm
The worst part of this is Jesse Jackson Jr.’s total disrespect for his father. He didn’t have to publicly humiliate Jesse.
Maybe Junior is thinking about his own political future.
Do people completely lose control of their good sense because of their adoration of Obama?
Posted by: cindy in nc | July 9, 2008, 7:00 pm 7:00 pm
The title Reverend needs to be dropped from Jackson, Sharpton and Wright’s names. These men all should know that the Bible talks about speaking in order to edify, not destroy.
Posted by: ckcgye | July 9, 2008, 7:11 pm 7:11 pm
Why is this a story but McCain’s comments about killing Iranians is not? At least not “front page” news.
Posted by: concerned citizen | July 9, 2008, 7:13 pm 7:13 pm
liz -
The enemy of our enemy is our friend. Chairman taught us well, and Obama learned better for taking Chairman Mao’s “Revolution We Can Believe In!” into his Change.
Posted by: fools | July 9, 2008, 7:17 pm 7:17 pm
Just words…..Just theatrics…Don’t anyone fall for this okie doke. Jesse Sr. and Jesse Jr. are providing a distraction and helping Obama APPEAR to throw Black people under the bus. Wake up everyone….especially my Black people. You are being used, big time!
This is classic good cop/bad cop play acting.
Posted by: Virginia in NC | July 9, 2008, 7:18 pm 7:18 pm
Jesse Jackson should have known better than to make a statement like that in public.
Posted by: Len Jackson | July 9, 2008, 7:25 pm 7:25 pm
Jesse threw his father under the bus because he knew Obama was ready to throw Jesse under the bus. Saved his skin for the day. Obama said it was getting crowded under his bus.
Posted by: DemocratNoMore2 | July 9, 2008, 7:29 pm 7:29 pm
Does anyone else think these “scandals” are staged? They’re always conveniently timed and just seem to shift the public’s attention away from the real issues. When you get right down to it, Jackson’s comments weren’t that bad, he was just criticizing Obama’s speech on an issue – something he shouldn’t have to apologize for, yet suddenly, even Jackson’s own son has come out in support of Obama, singing his praises while criticizing his own father. Hmmmm. seems all too convenient to me, especially when you realize that Obama has been taking a lot of criticism from even his own supporters lately.
Posted by: Yasha | July 9, 2008, 7:29 pm 7:29 pm
And now we see the whirlwind. A campaign based on mixing volatile elements has a way of coming apart.
Predictable.
Let’s see what McCain’s numbers do between now and the middle of August. The Democrats united to fight each other. The Republicans unite to fight the Democrats. If the currrent trend continues, Obama will have a hard time holding his coalitions together while the Republicans will begin to strengthen around McCain.
I suggest Obama and his handlers make up their minds if they really want to win this. If Obama is losing some of his coalition because of the need to go center (not wrong but not the date he brought to the party), he will need an ally with a similarly strong coalition.
Today that means Hillary Clinton. I don’t know what they have in mind, but that is the one sure path to victory.
Posted by: len | July 9, 2008, 7:35 pm 7:35 pm
Obama is now recanting his stance on FISA, voting for it. Just a few weeks ago, Obama was against it. Again, flip floppin away! What an idiot Obama is!
Posted by: Will | July 9, 2008, 7:36 pm 7:36 pm
I feel a speech coming on….life will be swell again.
Posted by: Kumbaya | July 9, 2008, 7:37 pm 7:37 pm
This story outlines yet an another “moral leader” that BO hangs out with that will be detrimental to this country. I cannot imagine my pastor using that kind of language. As a Christian, we need to draw people in with the way we talk, not use profanity. I know that Jackson has no desire for BO to win and neither does HRC. Wait and see.
Posted by: Frustrated Voter | July 9, 2008, 7:39 pm 7:39 pm
Jackson was just reminding him where he came from. Obama is not used to being in the spotlight so sometimes he needs somebody to bring him back to reality.
Posted by: brigitte | July 9, 2008, 7:39 pm 7:39 pm
It.s great that the Obama camp has accepted the apology of Jessie Jackson. The question however is that whether the apology would have been accepted so fast if it was said by a non-african american. Remember how they jumped at anything said by the Clinton camp during the primaries. Smells like double standards to me.
Posted by: ssrj | July 9, 2008, 7:43 pm 7:43 pm
Even Jackson sees how Obama talks down to people. Elitists tend to do that.
Posted by: Ex-Dem | July 9, 2008, 7:43 pm 7:43 pm
Nat Turner says:
The funny thing is………..
THIS ACTUALLY HELPS OBAMA!
Thanks Jesse for shoring up Obama’s Juggernaut of Political Prowess!
…..Okay Nat I see you get it. I wonder why so many others do not. The Obama campaign has played the race card again SUCCESSFULLY!
Posted by: Virginia in NC | July 9, 2008, 7:44 pm 7:44 pm
I’m sure glad there isn’t a “hot mic” around when I talk to my best friend, because I say things much worse to him!
Posted by: unsurreality | July 9, 2008, 7:44 pm 7:44 pm
Obama: What a time he has with black preachers!
Posted by: Soetoro No! | July 9, 2008, 7:48 pm 7:48 pm
NoBama can make all the speeches he wants, this isn’t the primaries anymore. Backtrack is in the BIG league now. He has pandered and flip flopped so much, no speech can pull him out of this slump. It’s amazing how many, many people are running away from Backtrack Obama now, how his “own” race is insulting him, and how he continues to flip-flop all over the place. I knew it would be only a matter of time before NoBama imploded, and the GOP hasnt even really got a good start on vetting this idiot! This is GREAT! I love to see NoBama on the ropes!
Posted by: Will | July 9, 2008, 7:49 pm 7:49 pm
I’m so tired of the ridicule of Obama. This man is running for the president of the United States not the president of black America. He needs to do what is best for the whole country. If he does that, then black American’s will benefit as well as white Americans.
Posted by: Tiredofridicule | July 9, 2008, 7:53 pm 7:53 pm
Are these the black male leaders that white America is supposed to listen to and respect? We just saw the REAL Jesse Jackson and heard his REAL feelings about “uppity” Sen. Barack Obama’s moralizing and lecturing his “fellow” black men. My God, do we as Americans REALLY want or need all this unnecessary drama? Is Barack an asset or a distraction? This Hillary supporter is either voting for Sen. John McCain or staying away from the polls come November. Because of his phoney facade and weak character Barack would make a TERRIBLE President.
Posted by: PhillyPaul | July 9, 2008, 7:55 pm 7:55 pm
I am sure that Jesse Jackson is going to vote for McCain.
Posted by: Thinking | July 9, 2008, 7:58 pm 7:58 pm
Can’t wait to watch Hannity and Colmes later on…Hannity is going to have a FIELD Day with this! BTW, where has Roland Martin and Donna Brazille been lately? They must be off honeymooning and crying because NoBama is being vetted and is no longer the “golden child” of the media!
Posted by: Will | July 9, 2008, 7:59 pm 7:59 pm
There is one thing about this election that is evident. Racism transend the colorline and Mr. Obama has to be more careful of the people whose skin color most resembles his. I am not surprised a remark would come out Rev Jackson’s mouth. He is a has been and will grab at any opportunity to grab the lime light when there is none to grab. He has disgusted me for many years and now I become nauseated at the mention of his name. Mr Obama if you truly walk the walk and not just talk the talk Dr. Kings dream will be closer to reality. I have not decided who I am going to vote for but one thing is for sure You have my attention.
Posted by: Wallbut | July 9, 2008, 8:01 pm 8:01 pm
Crabs in a bucket
Posted by: Ashawan | July 9, 2008, 8:02 pm 8:02 pm
Either this is a mis-direction play to upstage Barack caving on FISA or Jesse didn’t get the memo…Obama only needed him to help play the race-card against the Clintons in South Carolina.
Now Jesse and his opinions can exit stage-left while Barack panders to the right, and his supporters make excuses for his flip-flopping mistakes.
Once Obama is POTUS, he won’t need his starry-eyed low dollar supporters, because Wall Street will have his back.
Posted by: 12SpeakOut | July 9, 2008, 8:12 pm 8:12 pm
mary,
I hope now it is becoming clear, everyone knew there was not much to obama, he certainly should not be the first black president, he didn’t even come from us.
the whole thing was to BEAT sen. clinton.
that was the msm objective to help anyone beat sen. clinton.
the clinton’ have helped all communities and will continue to. this obama has not even helped his own state. i wonder how they felt after voting for him to be senator, to find he immediately started his run for president.
Posted by: RUMMY | July 9, 2008, 8:18 pm 8:18 pm
stop the hatin’
anger is passe
vote Obama
Posted by: evan thyme | July 9, 2008, 8:22 pm 8:22 pm
@ Rummy…..I agree, however, Obama was NOT elected, but rather SELECTED….thats why he will NEVER be President!
Posted by: David | July 9, 2008, 8:22 pm 8:22 pm
The only hope for the dems now is the convention. Dean, Pelosi, Reid I hope you are watching the Jackson debacle on CNN. Your blundering is going to cost you not only the White House, but your jobs!!!! You pompous idiots!!!!
Posted by: fairelection2008 | July 9, 2008, 8:24 pm 8:24 pm
Jez…I’m starting to like Nobama better if Jesse the Jerk dislikes him. Enough said.
Posted by: roger king | July 9, 2008, 8:24 pm 8:24 pm
I have this song playing in my head that I just can’t get rid of. Goes like this: and another one gone and another one gone, another one under the bus. Hey, he’s going to get you to, another one under the bus.
Posted by: GregT | July 9, 2008, 8:25 pm 8:25 pm
@ Rummy…..I agree, however, Obama was NOT elected, but rather SELECTED….thats why he will NEVER be President!
Posted by: David | Jul 9, 2008 8:22:15 PM
Ann Coulter had an article titled the same thing 6 weeks ago. Did you, perhaps, read it.
Posted by: Belle | July 9, 2008, 8:26 pm 8:26 pm
I don’t think there is any HOPE for the dems this time around.
because as you can see, ever since the primaries ended and sen. clinton is off the scene, everytime obama opens his mouth, he get closer and closer to losing.
even with mccain saying the stupid stuff he says.
the only hope the dems have now is if they can keep obama’s mouth shut.
Posted by: Rummy | July 9, 2008, 8:27 pm 8:27 pm
MikeMo1947, I’m still voting for McCain. He is the only one “I” trust to run our country. A “president” can’t please everyone. A “president” has to do what is best for our country at that time. We don’t know about “all” the problems & issues behind the scenes, and we don’t need to know “everything” for the sake of “national security”. McCain is the only one with the experience to run our country. If terrorists were to attack our country, who do you honestly think would be able to know what to do? Obamma or McCain? I vote for McCain. Think about it.
Posted by: Mary Cossins | July 9, 2008, 8:28 pm 8:28 pm
My question is what did Obama say or do when Jackson was speaking to him like this? I would find it very funny if Obama just sat there and took it from Jackson given Obama’s superstar status.
Posted by: Susan | July 9, 2008, 8:31 pm 8:31 pm
If Obama is the best man for the job why isn’the kicking McCain’s butt? Gallop poll 48% to 46%.
After Hillary got out of the race he was suppose to have a surge. I don’t see it do any of you? It sure isn’t being reflected in the polls.
And with each passing day Obama just keeps putting his arrogant foot in his mouth. Oh I know I wasn’t listening to him. How arrogant and egotistical of him and he even said it in a demeaning tone.
That is what is turning people off and the fact that he has changed his postion on things he promised he wouldn’t-FISA even his own supporters flamed him on his own website and he voted for it when he said he wasn’t.
Trust? Ha but they will all follow and be surprised when he isn’t the president that he claims he is going to be.
Posted by: AngrynAnnoyed | July 9, 2008, 8:33 pm 8:33 pm
Mark my words! We will have OBAMA as our next president. Obama is beautiful inside and out and yes it’s true–he is a combination of the best of both worlds. He is a product of love not hate–but it is truly sad, that in today’s world an African American is so quick to put down and make disrespectful statements towards someone who is African. We all know that Obama is half white/African. The problem for people like the great and reputable Jessie Jackson Sr. is that he can’t stand the fact that Obama is half African. It’s a shame!! The more things change the more they stay the same. I see this everyday. Even in sitcoms –the sad hate towards African people. America needs change–we need unity–we need and Love Obama!! May God Bless him now and always!!!
Posted by: t | July 9, 2008, 8:35 pm 8:35 pm
susan,
jackson was not talking to obama.
go watch the clip on cnn.and all the other news networks
Posted by: Rk | July 9, 2008, 8:35 pm 8:35 pm
I think Obama will be a true leader who will not only use government to lift the nation but also the bully pulpit to ask his own to take responsibility for their action and break the cycle of neglect of the next generation
Posted by: gjkotw01 | July 9, 2008, 8:37 pm 8:37 pm
Everyone please, think outside the box!! Please, please define black? America is a melting pot!!! Wake up!! The black community comprises of so many different ethnic groups!
Posted by: t | July 9, 2008, 8:40 pm 8:40 pm
jesse said in his attempt to justify; “My appeal was for the moral content of his message to not only deal with the personal and moral responsibility of black males, but to deal with the collective moral responsibility of government and the public policy which would be a corrective action for the lack of good choices that often led to their irresponsibility.”
what a bunch of crap – this is the opposite of what a minister should say – note to jesse, personal accountabilty not only matters – it matters a great deal and – it is NOT up to the government to make everyone’s choices for them so they can blame the government whenever they make a bad choice – utterly ridiculous tripe – you are a dinosaur and you do more harm than good
Posted by: katt | July 9, 2008, 8:40 pm 8:40 pm
Jesse Jackson is a self-centered idiot. He always shoves his face in front of a camera and gets at the front of the line for any and all causes for the sake of being seen. So, whatever he says does not matter one bit. Frankly he does not have ANY class compared to Barack Obama.
Posted by: Lauren G | July 9, 2008, 8:41 pm 8:41 pm
Both Obama and Jackson are spot on point. Keep Hope Alive and Yes We Can!!!
Posted by: Earl | July 9, 2008, 8:46 pm 8:46 pm
Black people are starting to see Obama for who he really is. Plus Chicago residents are spreading the word on the poor job he did there. A large percentage of blacks are not going to vote for him in Nov. and instead will stay home. The spell has worn off.
Posted by: Anna | July 9, 2008, 8:46 pm 8:46 pm
His moral high road is beginning to bother me too. He should stick to economics and the war. We get enough sanctimonious talk from Joe Lieberman.
Posted by: Passin Thru | July 9, 2008, 8:47 pm 8:47 pm
I want to know why won’t any news network air the ENTIRE comment…. it is supposedly too crude to air, or write about. What happened to free speech and the publics right to know?
Posted by: deb | July 9, 2008, 8:50 pm 8:50 pm
racial descrimination is alive and well in the good old USA There are good and bad people of every color, why not give a chance to the ones that, so far, have a good record, or would you like to cast the first stone? Obama has more to loose if he is not genuine than any other candidate in the history of our country. It won’t take four years to find out if he is not qualified,
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Yep, we just found out he would sell out the constitution. Can you say “FISA!” And, O, how much more we know.
Posted by: oklahomahills | July 9, 2008, 8:50 pm 8:50 pm
Nothing happens by accident in this campaign, both Jackson and Obama know this only helps the Obama campaign.
Posted by: noelle | July 9, 2008, 8:53 pm 8:53 pm
JJ is a part of the old establishment, and will not willingly step aside…unless he is shoved. Other than those who support McCain, who cares what JJ has to say? In November, you will see just how insignificant he really is. The new generation of folks could care less about what JJ thinks. He’s like a black Rush Limbaugh; he has an audience that is relatively insignificant.
Posted by: dmac | July 9, 2008, 8:56 pm 8:56 pm
I LOVE THIS STUFF.!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Who Knows So What Who Cares | July 9, 2008, 8:56 pm 8:56 pm
Jesse Jackson has been in the public eye long enough to know there’s no such thing as saying something in “private” in a public forum. He’s not that naive and hopefully, not that stupid!
Posted by: NothingsPrivate | July 9, 2008, 8:57 pm 8:57 pm
As an African American, I would vote for Rev. Jackson or Rev Sharpton at least I know where they stand. The democrat left me to vote for McCain in November.
Posted by: Willie | July 9, 2008, 8:59 pm 8:59 pm
why is this the top story? it has no relevance for voters trying to figure out what the candidates are really about. who cares what Jesse Jackson said
Posted by: Tyler | July 9, 2008, 8:59 pm 8:59 pm
>>>t:
“The problem for people like the great and reputable Jessie Jackson Sr. is that he can’t stand the fact that Obama is half African. It’s a shame!! The more things change the more they stay the same. ”
ARE YOU SAYING THAT JESSIE JACKSON…
IS A R A C I S T ????
OH MY G-D!!!!!
TOO FUNNY!!!!!
Posted by: EGADS! | July 9, 2008, 9:02 pm 9:02 pm
I KNOW WHY JESSIE JACKSON IS RUNNING OFF HIS MOUTH.BECAUSE IS [JEALOUS]THAT HE DIDN’T MAKE IT THAT FAR WHEN HE RAN FOR OFFICE.HE IS CONSIDER A SORE LOSER JUST LIKE A KID GROWN KID.
Posted by: nana1 | July 9, 2008, 9:03 pm 9:03 pm
This certainly does distract fron Obama’s flip=flopping and support of wiretapping.
Posted by: noelle | July 9, 2008, 9:03 pm 9:03 pm
Obama has succeeded where he has failed. Think that he might be a wee bit jealous???
Posted by: Jesse Who?? | July 9, 2008, 9:06 pm 9:06 pm
A nice little Sister Souljah moment by Jackson and Obama. Jackson spouts off to Fox News, of course knowing Fox will run it. Very smoothly separates the Jackson campaign of years past from the Obama campaign, and sends a signal to white folk that Obama is talking tough with black folk, despite the 95 % support. Extremely high probability this was a carefully orchestrated political maneuver.
Posted by: hopesprings52 | July 9, 2008, 9:07 pm 9:07 pm
John, I think you’re on to something here. These people have all the money to hire strategists and I would not be surprised at all that this was staged. Jackson doesn’t mind because he knows he’s not going anywhere and, since his son works for Obama, he probably agree to do it to help out his son’s standing with the Obamamas. Yep! I think it was staged to place Obama under the light of “he’s not that black”, as if any thinking person in this country cares about his color…
Posted by: AGT-R | July 9, 2008, 9:09 pm 9:09 pm
I really think that Snob-ama needs to give a prepared speech covering the topic of talking down to black people. That should take care of it. Yup, that will do it.
Posted by: GregT | July 9, 2008, 9:10 pm 9:10 pm
Isn’t this the same man who cheated on his wife and had a baby with his mistress? Perhaps he felt Obama’s comments were directed at him. Jessie Jackson should know that black stopped listening to him years ago. Didn’t Jessie make anti-semitic jokes when he ran for president? For a person who actually walked with Martin Luther King, Jessie Jackson is nothing but a big disappointment.
Posted by: Cinna | July 9, 2008, 9:15 pm 9:15 pm
This is gold for Obama! The fallout from this will be Obama angers old guard radical black leader by presurring blacks to take more responsibility. That is a great message for Obama.
Posted by: HonestAbe | July 9, 2008, 9:16 pm 9:16 pm
“Black people are starting to see Obama for who he really is. Plus Chicago residents are spreading the word on the poor job he did there.”
And there’s . . . Alice Palmer.
Posted by: Bobby Hutton | July 9, 2008, 9:16 pm 9:16 pm
Obama can’t distance himself from the Reverend JJ too much. Just like Rev. Wright. And naturally, throw Sharpton in there, too. Con men of the cloak are still con men and those three are as slimy as a sea slug.
Posted by: Zinglesloff | July 9, 2008, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm
Fox News states
“The Rev. Jesse Jackson apologized Wednesday for saying Barack Obama is “talking down to black people” during what Jackson thought was a private conversation with a FOX News reporter Sunday.” So what was it a “hot mic” as Jackson says? Sounds like an interview with Fox News. And Jackson thought he was having “a private conversation” with a Fox News reporter?? Oh that’s rich. Stunt, 99.9% sure.
Posted by: hopesprings52 | July 9, 2008, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm
Let’s for a minute rise above the talk about the personalities of either candidate and talk about what the country needs. Lincoln once said he preferred the tried and true over the untested. that’s a pretty good description of the Liberal/Conservative split that so divides us these days. But there’s truth to neither. To reject all change is to ask for stagnation. But to call for change is to “ignore history and be doomed to repeat it”. What we need is an elevation of the rhetoric not only in forums like this but by the candidates and their supporters. Instead we get Jesse’s crude remark because he found something not to his total satisfaction.
3et’s discuss principles, like equality before th law, rich and poor, black and white, male and female! The best measure of a democracy is how it treats its m inorities. But abuse of the rich is no better thn abuse of the poor. Is abuse of the white more noble than of the black?
Principles! Ideal! Equality before the law! Not the candidates yesticles. throw Jessee under the bus as he has now shown his demagogic low-life trashy self.
Posted by: Tom Beebe | July 9, 2008, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm
WILL AMERICAN PEOPLE BUY THIS STORY???????????????… This is the question…..Jesse Jackson knows what means to be in FOX studios and having microphone on…..At least,,,,for Jackson,,,FOX studio would have been the last place in this planet to make such remarks…….He hates FOX from the bottom of his heart, but he knows that that would have been the best place to start this game…..He knew that everything was on and that FOX was surveying him….He knew it 100%….Knowing that scenario and knowing that was being recorded, he moved on the other side by making controversial remarks that at the end would help Obama…..This people have the evil’s mind…..
Posted by: John | July 9, 2008, 9:18 pm 9:18 pm
If Obama WAS smart, he wouldn’t dare be seen with Jesse “Flake” Jackson.
Posted by: Sam | July 9, 2008, 9:19 pm 9:19 pm
John@9:02 Every time Obama makes a statement the polls are scrutinized and then he heads off in a different direction. By August he will have taken every conceivable position on every significant issue. Next all the different positions that maximized polling will be brought together into a composite image. Then and only then will he know who he’s going to be for the next two months.Two months will be long enough for the public to recover from all the hubub about flip flopping. He’s searching for his identity.
Posted by: mmonroeliveson | July 9, 2008, 9:20 pm 9:20 pm
Here we go again. The three stages of Obama. 1.) Say you are ok with the statement 2.) Wait until the average folks get angry 3.) Throw um under the bus. Barack Obama it’s time to throw him under the bus.
Posted by: Nobama | July 9, 2008, 9:21 pm 9:21 pm
Keep in Mind!!!!!!!!!… FOX STUDIO WOULD HAVE BEEN THE LAST PLACE IN THIS PLANET IN WHICH JACKSON WOULD LAUNCH SUCH REMARKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!NO NO NO!!!…FOX WAS THE BEST PLACE TO START THIS NEW EVIL STRATEGY>>>>>>
Posted by: John | July 9, 2008, 9:22 pm 9:22 pm
WILL AMERICAN PEOPLE BUY THIS STORY???????????????… This is the question…..Jesse Jackson knows what means to be in FOX studios and having microphone on…..At least,,,,for Jackson,,,FOX studio would have been the last place in this planet to make such remarks…….He hates FOX from the bottom of his heart, but he knows that that would have been the best place to start this game…..He knew that everything was on and that FOX was surveying him….He knew it 100%….Knowing that scenario and knowing that was being recorded, he moved on the other side by making controversial remarks that at the end would help Obama….. Posted by: John
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So Fox is playing along with Jesse’s elaborate scheme to “help” Obama? Why is that?
Posted by: HonestAbe | July 9, 2008, 9:23 pm 9:23 pm
This is a big one. I can only think of one person who can solve this. Hand me the phone – I’m calling Oprah.
Posted by: Julie | July 9, 2008, 9:27 pm 9:27 pm
This is a big one. I can only think of one person who can solve this. Hand me the phone – I’m calling Oprah.
Posted by: Julie | Jul 9, 2008 9:27:32 PM
Now, that is funny!
Posted by: David | July 9, 2008, 9:29 pm 9:29 pm
please help me, i am very confused as you can tell. help me Posted by: BETTY
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– Obama is not a Muslim. He has been a Christian for over 20 years.
– Hiw father was a from Kenya and an atheist.
– His mother was white and also an atheist.
– Obama is mixed race. In this country that makes you black.
Posted by: HonestAbe | July 9, 2008, 9:30 pm 9:30 pm
“Interesting that Rev. Jackson doesn’t like Obama to discuss the responsibility of black men to their families.”
Female-centered families come from slavery — and, of course, from Africa. Not everybody on the block can command the income, or has the desire, to play Ozzie and Harriett.
Posted by: Bobby Hutton | July 9, 2008, 9:32 pm 9:32 pm
No..Sunny… it just proves what a sore loser Jesse Jackson is.Rev. Jackson wanted to be first black to be in highest office in the land….and when it was proven that this will never happen ..he is lashing out….he is a angry man…..he sees his future going down thr tubes….and some young arrogant black man taking his place. ..his heart is filled with hate. He would rather elect an old white Republican man…instead of admitting defeat.
Posted by: orange cat | July 9, 2008, 9:33 pm 9:33 pm
This is just as much an accident as the family interview was with access hollywood. oops i didn’t know my chidren were there.
Posted by: noelle | July 9, 2008, 9:34 pm 9:34 pm
The fake and the flake! A movie coming to a theater near you!! lol what a crock!
Posted by: HP Boston | July 9, 2008, 9:36 pm 9:36 pm
If Jesse weren’t black, they WOULD be calling him a racist. Sound like a familiar situation? How ironic, that one of his own also does not like Obama waffling back and forth on black liberation theology. “Talking down” to blacks? Oh, my goodness! Ask Preacher Wright what he thinks about this big snafu. Would he blast Jesse or just call them both politicians?
Posted by: georgia | July 9, 2008, 9:37 pm 9:37 pm
Why should anyone be shocked to hear this sort of bigotry from Jesse Jackson. He choked up the same tripe when Bill Cosby pointed out that absent fathers produce derelict sons. The only exception was the he didn’t go Loreena Bobbitt on the “Coz”.
For decades, the Jeremiah Wrights and Jesse Jacksons have made a tax-free living by inundating black churches and meeting halls with this out-dated and intentionally out-of-touch garbage.
Here’s the bottom line. An immigrant to this country is TEN TIMES more likely to own a business of his or her own in their first decade in the states than a native-born American of ANY COLOR. Why, because they haven’t spent their entire life poisoned by the culture and claptrap that is poured out every day by Jesse and the like.
All Cosby and Obama have done is point out what any observer can see if they would open their eyes and shut their mouths. Generation after generation of welfare and self-loathing have created a culture of expected-failure. Cosby and Obama pointed the finger at the primary causes and Jesse pulls out the razor blade. What a sterling example of what happens when anyone makes their living by cultivating the fears of a group of people. Jackson, Jones, Koresh or Wright – they are all sources of poison to their own people. It has to stop! Apologies don’t cut it (no pun intended.) It’s time for the bigots to step aside and let responsibility and opportunity do what they could have been doing for the last twenty years.
Posted by: DocAthens | July 9, 2008, 9:38 pm 9:38 pm
This is just as much an accident as the family interview was with access hollywood. oops i didn’t know my chidren were there. Posted by: noelle
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So Fox is in cahoots with Obama and Jackson??
Posted by: HonestAbe | July 9, 2008, 9:39 pm 9:39 pm
AJ: Yes, Rev. Jackson is speaking the truth. Obama talks down to black and white people. Obama is a two-faces fool.
Posted by: suzy | July 9, 2008, 9:42 pm 9:42 pm
Didn’t Jesse commit a crime? Isn’t threatening bodily harm against someone a felony? Where are the police when you need them.
Posted by: GregH | July 9, 2008, 9:42 pm 9:42 pm
Some of you amaze me-
YOU ARE TRASHING REV.JACKSON if it wasn’t for him amd people like HIM OBAMA wouldn’t be where he is TODAY>
Where is the respect? Oh I forgot ANY AND ALL COST TO GET HIM ELECTED NO MATTER WHO FALLS ON THE SWORD TO GET THERE!!
HOW SAD!!!
Posted by: AngrynAnnoyed | July 9, 2008, 9:42 pm 9:42 pm
Sweet! I hope everyone remembers this incident the next time Jackson goes after some white person for saying something similar!!! Two-faced idiot anyway…
Posted by: JustMe | July 9, 2008, 9:44 pm 9:44 pm
Cinna, please read Obama’s books for your answer. He is the one who said he is against white people.
Posted by: GrandmaJones | July 9, 2008, 9:44 pm 9:44 pm
“Obama is talking down to them need to take a good long look in the mirror before throwing stones.
Posted by: Scottie NH | Jul 9, 2008 9:26:46 PM”"
And maybe he needs to tie his ears on tighter so that they don’t wiggle when he waffles…..
Life is full of maybes…..
Posted by: animal fare | July 9, 2008, 9:44 pm 9:44 pm
Another slip of the tongue. Perhaps we all ought to back off a notch. Everyone has a “peashooter mind,” everyone has at times exaggerated, melo-dramatized a situation, flown off the handle with a cruel metaphor, or sworn under their breath at spilled milk or a traffic jam.
Usually, that blowing off steam is not what actually drives the person in their daily acts, does not really reflect their true intentions. How many of us have screamed at the TV screen “Hillary, WHY the #%@ #$& did you do that?” or “Obama, don’t be a %)(*! Come on…!”
This SHAME SHAME SHAME thing…let’s get beyond it, all right?
Posted by: Cwright | July 9, 2008, 9:45 pm 9:45 pm
I can’t even understand what Jackson is saying. It sounds like he has a bunch of marbles in his mouth. He should get some speech articulation lessons from Obama.
Posted by: Fred Jones | July 9, 2008, 9:45 pm 9:45 pm
I;m putting my new Obama bumper sticker on. “To Much Drama With Obama”
Posted by: Jackie | July 9, 2008, 9:46 pm 9:46 pm
The official Obama campaign response:
“As someone who grew up without a father in the home, Senator Obama has spoken out and written for many years about the issue of parental responsibility, including the importance of fathers participating in their children’s lives. He also discusses our responsibility as a society to provide jobs, justice, and opportunity for all. He will continue to speak out about our responsibilities to ourselves and each other and he of course accepts Reverend Jackson’s apology.”
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As usual Senator Obama takes the high road.
Posted by: HonestAbe | July 9, 2008, 9:47 pm 9:47 pm
There’s still a thread that runs through Obama and that is hypocrisy. I remember when Ferraro came out with her statement, he’s all over her. Now Jesse Jackson’s uncut comments are vicious, but he accepts without even a grimace.
Posted by: country_voter | July 9, 2008, 9:48 pm 9:48 pm
oama is an Arrogant, Radical FRAUD – & he does talk down to black folks and white folks. Sharpton, Jackson & Obama were first in line to call Bill Clinton a racist for innocent remarks,
Geraldine Ferraro – racist -
can you imagine if a white woman had made this commnet??? What a Group -
obama has made this all about black/white – what a shame!
Posted by: Abby | July 9, 2008, 9:48 pm 9:48 pm
Why can’t we ever discuss real issues instead of this kind of crap? I a poor white guy. Bush is not doing anything that helps me. I hope Obama will look out for us little people instead of always the big shots.
Posted by: geevi | July 9, 2008, 9:49 pm 9:49 pm
Meanwhile…
Did McCain ever clarify his statement from yesterday about “killing Iranians with cigarettes”?
Posted by: HonestAbe | July 9, 2008, 9:49 pm 9:49 pm
Why can’t we ever discuss real issues instead of this kind of crap? I a poor white guy. Bush is not doing anything that helps me. I hope Obama will look out for us little people instead of always the big shots. Posted by: geevi
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If you are truly a “poor white guy” then you will be much better off with Obama and the Democrats. The Republicans do not care about poor people except that they are needed to do their dirty work.
Posted by: HonestAbe | July 9, 2008, 9:53 pm 9:53 pm
Does anyone know what Jesse Jackson said? I cant find it anywhere.
Posted by: SF | July 9, 2008, 9:55 pm 9:55 pm
Quite frankly I think Obama should be taken to task for his lack of commitment to anyone but himself. I am glad Jesse said what he did. Don’t apologize, it appears that you meant it, so don’t be like all the others like the media, who act like Obama will strike them dead if they don’t say nothing bad glowing, positive comments. Obama has a lot of explaining to do about his first job out of college; his flip-flopping on the Irag skirmish; his lying on his stance on just about any issue he has talked about. His is a manipulative, lying, arrogant mistake of a politiican.
Posted by: Kris | July 9, 2008, 9:55 pm 9:55 pm
Oh “HonestAbe” give us all THINKING voters just a little bit of credit and a break! You just inexplicably wrote the Barack “Followers” mantra, “Once again, Barack Obama takes the high road”. Excuse me as I gag. Posted by: PhillyPaul
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Please gag away but it is remarkable that Obama did “take the high road” yet again. I would have throw the SOB under the bus. Nobody threatens my cajones and gets away with it!!
Posted by: HonestAbe | July 9, 2008, 9:57 pm 9:57 pm
Geevi- Fraid not as all Obama’s friends are rich- Oprah,Ted Kennedy, and Rezko oops he’s going to jail etc… So you will be overlooked!
Posted by: AngrynAnnoyed | July 9, 2008, 9:59 pm 9:59 pm
An open microphone picked up Jackson whispering, “See, Barack’s been talking down to black people … I want to cut his nuts off.”
Jackson told CNN’s “Situation Room” that he didn’t realize the microphone was on.
“It was very private,” Jackson said, adding that if “any hurt or harm has been caused to his campaign, I apologize.”
My comment:
Sure, It’s very private and it hurts a lot if you cut them.
Posted by: crookedpolitician | July 9, 2008, 9:59 pm 9:59 pm
Rev. Wright said, Obama is a typical politician. Rev. Jackson said he talked down to blacks and to cut off his “ha ha’s”. Now, that is getting to the heart of the matter !!!
Posted by: Oren | July 9, 2008, 10:00 pm 10:00 pm
Rev.Jackson is not sorry about what he said…he is just sorry that it was over heard…and on tape.
Posted by: orange cat | July 9, 2008, 10:00 pm 10:00 pm
when is jesse jackson going to shut the hell up and go away? he has “misspoken” or just simply shot his mouth off for decades and done a lot more damage than good. at least he raised a son with a sense of responsibility.
Posted by: kath | July 9, 2008, 10:01 pm 10:01 pm
I am concerned that a private citizen is speaking to a presidental candidate this way… what does this say about the candidate in general? And, why in the world wasn’t a conversation like this held in private?! Lastly, I am VERY concerned about Rev. Jackson’s message and the policy he attempting to push on a presidential candidate.
Posted by: speinal | July 9, 2008, 10:01 pm 10:01 pm
“Does anyone know what Jesse Jackson said? I cant find it anywhere.”
Apparently Jesse said he’d like to cut off Big Daddy Barack’s n-words for talking down to black people.
Guess Jesse didn’t hear Big Daddy’s the guy who (tells white people he’s the guy who) brings a gun to the knife fight.
I wish Jesse’d ridicule Big Daddy’s recent change of hair color — trying to put blacks in mind of Malcolm, maybe . . .
Posted by: Bobby Hutton | July 9, 2008, 10:03 pm 10:03 pm
Many think this was an elaborate ploy to aid Obama concocted by the Obama campaign, Jackson and Fox news — a rather odd aliance.
Posted by: HonestAbe | July 9, 2008, 10:04 pm 10:04 pm
Why does this guy rev Jackson continue to make an idiot out of himself? He is the most prejudice guy I know. Now a days the blacks seem more prejudice than the whites.
Posted by: Dean | July 9, 2008, 10:04 pm 10:04 pm
Um, “DI”? Did you ever stop to consider for a moment that Geraldine Ferraro was RIGHT? That she has nothing to apologize for at all? I am proud that she is so refreshingly honest and blunt. America needs more of that honesty! Im sick and tired of phony politicians saying something that they actually MEANT, and then, when it does not “play well” on cable news, they turn around and say that they “misspoke” and apologize profusely and insincerely. Like Jackson did today. Like Barack does everyday!
Posted by: PhillyPaul | July 9, 2008, 10:05 pm 10:05 pm
elitism is marrying wealth…
coming from wealth…
honoring and rewarding the wealthy
and showing it in examples like not understanding that not everybody has a rich daddy to pay for their education when they come home from war…hero or not.
or not understanding that for the millions and millions that don’t have healthcare… there country club friends, family and in-laws won’t help them and neither will “letting the market work it out”
elitist means not understanding that some people’s parents were not wealthy enough to send their kids to elite schools…heck many of them couldn’t afford daycare… so when they went to buy a home and looked for every opportunity for that basic of American dream…they did not know when the crooked mortgage lender saud “you are approved for a variable rate mortgage…how bad it would get”
that’s elitist.
Posted by: dl | July 9, 2008, 10:06 pm 10:06 pm
being real isnt always popular! didnt say he doesnt agree with him, did it?
people were upset with cosby for the same thing bringing up black problems to the face of everyone including whites who they feel are judgmental as it is. You cant deny that either i mean be truthful had obama been white would people be so easily convinced he is a muslim? That just because his church said something its something he sternly believes in, NO! look at the same situation with mccain.. you cant deny it-
i dont think its racism its just that there has been toooo many years that history and some ignorance has seperated us and made us feel at the least uneasy around each other.. right or wrong its just the way it is. Add on that NO race is perfect with stereotypes and yes those racists (on both sides) with the differences of views and styles that are clear in most black or white homes and churches and there is going to be some confusion and stumbling on the way to getting over that separation..
Posted by: melissa | July 9, 2008, 10:07 pm 10:07 pm
Since when is a platform of personal responsibility, which truly frees a man, bad? It is a shame that some feel that it is better to be a dependent slave to the government and it’s handouts.
Posted by: speinal | July 9, 2008, 10:07 pm 10:07 pm
how can it be a hand out when you give the government that money?
Posted by: melissa | July 9, 2008, 10:10 pm 10:10 pm
did anyone notice he’s giving obama the finger in the article’s picture? hilarious!
Posted by: paul | July 9, 2008, 10:11 pm 10:11 pm
SadStateofAffairs, I see another old person falling under the bus. Hah! If this keeps up, there won’t be any elderly civil rights people to tell how far we have come. Progress? “The more things CHANGE, the more they stay the same!”
PUMA
McCain ’08
Posted by: georgia | July 9, 2008, 10:15 pm 10:15 pm
Come november 4th,sen.obama will no more be address as senator but the USA president.This is a destiny that can not be change or alter by any human talk or negative opinions. Those who found truth in Revd.Jesse Jackson comment are the Obama opponets,looking for avenue to run down the good images of Obama and paint him red in the face of his supporters.But they have failed
of there gimmicks.BARACK is black and every tribes..WHITE, HISPANIC,ETC ARE FOR HIM. GOD BLESS AMERICA.
Posted by: oya | July 9, 2008, 10:16 pm 10:16 pm
Great distraction so we’re not talking about the FISA bill today – Obama voted for it, the real Dem in this race, Hillary Clinton, voted against it, with a powerful message on our rights as citizens. For this fraud Obama, the DNC threw Hillary Clinton under the bus – what fools!!
Posted by: Grammy Barb | July 9, 2008, 10:16 pm 10:16 pm
Ouch !!!
Not bitter, just informed…
Posted by: Jock | July 9, 2008, 10:17 pm 10:17 pm
Where is Al Sharpton now? No reaction, Al, for the comments by Jesse??
Posted by: tlym | July 9, 2008, 10:19 pm 10:19 pm
Did you notice that Jesse Jackson passed wind at the end of his “cut off his nuts” statement. There is a lot of hot air on the Obama team…
Posted by: Julie | July 9, 2008, 10:20 pm 10:20 pm
I apologize to Jake. Just watched the video. Jesse does indeed say that he “wants to cut (Obama’s) nuts off.
My bad.
That’s what I get for trusting Politico over ABC.
Posted by: Stephen Gianelli | July 9, 2008, 10:22 pm 10:22 pm
Obama threw the extreme left under the bus, next he went after the African Americans. Obama knows he can’t win with just these two groups. I just hope Michelle doesn’t get in his way. For the sake of the Democratic Party, give it up Obama!
Posted by: rogersm234 | July 9, 2008, 10:22 pm 10:22 pm
Obama/Jackson in ’08
Don’t you feel the warmth !
Posted by: Ellie | July 9, 2008, 10:23 pm 10:23 pm
Obama can throw one more under the bus…
Posted by: Josh | July 9, 2008, 10:25 pm 10:25 pm
With friends like Jesse Jackson, you don’t need enemies.
Posted by: Jess R. | July 9, 2008, 10:29 pm 10:29 pm
Um, “DI”? Did you ever stop to consider for a moment that Geraldine Ferraro was RIGHT?
She was right that SHE was a token. Everything she did was because of nepotism and she was a woman. Too bad, she had a gangster for a husband.
Posted by: Cellie | July 9, 2008, 10:31 pm 10:31 pm
Where in the world did Jesse come up with the idea that Obama had any to cut off?
Posted by: Rob | July 9, 2008, 10:33 pm 10:33 pm
Obama’s religious friends just went down in order, strike one (Rev. Wright), strike two (Fr. Pfleger) and strike three (Rev. Jackson). You loose !
Posted by: Ernie in fl. | July 9, 2008, 10:33 pm 10:33 pm
Didn’t the “don’t bring a knife to a gunfight” come from The Godfather. (Ferraro reference again.)
Posted by: Cellie | July 9, 2008, 10:33 pm 10:33 pm
To the responders of this article:
I’m saddened by the amount of animosity and hatred that is spewed out by Americans on this site. The ignoragnce and refusal to acknowledge both Obama’s patriotism by the Right or Mcain’s dedication to the people by the left only reflects the reason this country is now faltering. These are people who truely love this country. They disagree on how we should go about some things, but there is no need for the kind of conspiricy or racism or mean spiritedness that is permeating the political field right now.
America, please be smarter than this. Be logical and understanding of how things get blown up or out by the mass media age. Be understaning that people are passionate about race. Be deferential to democracy. And be, as Jesus said, kind and non-judgemental toward our fellow brothers and sisters in this country and on this planet.
Posted by: Mike | July 9, 2008, 10:34 pm 10:34 pm
So Jesse Jackson said that Obama was talking down to Blacks by telling them to be responsible. This is somthing that his campaign should be doing more often. And why so much fuss??? Senator Obama talked down to hard working white people in PA. Remember.
Maybe too many AA believe as Rev. Wright. Blame, blame, blame.
Senator Obama is a dud.
Posted by: Martin | July 9, 2008, 10:35 pm 10:35 pm
With skeletons the likes of Rezko and Ayers and the good Reverends from Chicago in his closet, I find it most hypocritical for Barack Obama to be preaching morality to anyone. As a father he took his two little girls to a racist, divisive church for years – where is his credibility when it comes to being a good father? Bill Cosby has much more credibilty on this issue, yet he has suffered much backlash from the AA community because of his similar comments. I would be much more impressed had Obama given his recent “inspirational” speeches on race relations and morality years ago to the congregation at TUCC. Now it’s just more examples of the political pandering which seems to be his stock in trade. Sorry, I don’t buy it. PUMA.
Posted by: Grammy Barb | July 9, 2008, 10:35 pm 10:35 pm
Reverend Jackson should be ashamed of himself. He is supposedly a man of faith and he has the sudacity to use such words as cut off nuts to make his point? Perhaps he is taking to heart and believes Senator Obama is speaking directly to him, when he speaks of AOL fathers. Remember, Reverend Jackson sired a child with another woman while still married–JJ has a lot of nerve. Go away Reverend Jackson, it’s time you retired your tired ways and ideas. You do not speak for all Black people and as a 60 year old Black woman, I resent your presence in this campaign. I do not believe Senator Obama is speaking down to Black people, I believe you are.
Posted by: Sheila | July 9, 2008, 10:36 pm 10:36 pm
phillypaul: I have to agree with you 100% that Ms. Ferraro at least didn’t back down about what she said. It is about time in this country that people start saying what they mean, and meaning what they say.
Posted by: italy444 | July 9, 2008, 10:37 pm 10:37 pm
Obama can sure pick his friends. Can you imagine the VP choice. How about AL Sharpton?
Posted by: Wil | July 9, 2008, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm
Let ‘er rip, Jesse.
Posted by: BikernAz | July 9, 2008, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm
We are lucky, the convention is 7 weeks away. I can’t stand the Obama associates. We need Hillary !!!
PUMA
Posted by: Nate | July 9, 2008, 10:43 pm 10:43 pm
Jesse Jackson is right, Obama is talking down to African Americans. Obama could have sent the same message in a positve light. People know when they are being talked down to.
Posted by: rogersm234 | July 9, 2008, 10:44 pm 10:44 pm
Hey Jesse, would that be considered black radical surgery?
Posted by: Les | July 9, 2008, 10:45 pm 10:45 pm
Jackson, Sharpton, and others of the same mold have done more to harm the Blacks than any white task master during the slave days.
Posted by: Mike | July 9, 2008, 10:46 pm 10:46 pm
jesse is a three dollar bill!
Posted by: zombiej | July 9, 2008, 10:47 pm 10:47 pm
Jess The Ripper!
Posted by: walkingseemore | July 9, 2008, 10:47 pm 10:47 pm
It must be bad, even Rev. Jesse Jackson can’t stand Obama. The writing is on the wall.
McCain in ’08 & ’12
Posted by: Les | July 9, 2008, 10:48 pm 10:48 pm
They all (politicians) say what they really feel when no one is listening. They get caught and suddenly become regretful and ashamed. Not at the fact that what they said was wrong, but at the fact that they got caught. They want you to believe that we hwera things out of context, which is another word for saying that we are stupid. If I hear the word out of context one more time, I’m gonna puke!
He said what he said and he meant what he said and that’s it. He’s just pissed off that he isn’t in the position of Obama. I can see Jackson in a cabinet position…Wouldn’t that be nice – Another racist in a high level, power position. Just what does Jackson do anyway??? You can’t even understand what he says, let alone what is written above. Makes no sense.
Posted by: Scott | July 9, 2008, 10:49 pm 10:49 pm
hummm, didnt rev jessie have a child out of wedlock? hummm and now rev jessie said MR. O is talking down to black people? if a WHITE man had said that black people would be marching in the streets. of course its all about race.If a white person makes a comment like that theres hell to pay but black people turn a blind eye and deaf ear to it when another black person talks trash,this blog is free of OBAMBA 08′ tonight wonder why? hummmm not racial my A@#
Posted by: ric | July 9, 2008, 10:50 pm 10:50 pm
Obama needs to have a speech ready, just in case the DNC ousts him.
Posted by: rogersm234 | July 9, 2008, 10:51 pm 10:51 pm
Jesse is a step behind. Michelle already took care of the issue years ago.
Posted by: Ken | July 9, 2008, 10:53 pm 10:53 pm
This is a ploy
Jesse Jackson-Obama too black lulling the other races into believing that Black people aren’t voting for him because he is black WHICH HE ISN’T. But anyone who won’t vote for him is racist. Ha that is a racist vote is you ask me!
Obama voted Against FISA today so this was to deflect that as the top news story because he DID FLIP FLOP!
Same as when HE WAS CRUSHED IN WEST VIRGINIA- Edwards who just the night before said he would stay out of it
Announces his support!
Come on this is all a dance orchestrated by David Axelrod we are all being played!
Posted by: AngrynAnnoyed | July 9, 2008, 10:55 pm 10:55 pm
What Jackson failed to mention is that he also talks down to: women, elderly, religious, rural and poor people. Jackson is such a racist.
Posted by: Carl | July 9, 2008, 10:56 pm 10:56 pm
I was really surprised at Obama’s response. I thought he was going to say “talk to the booty because the hands off duty”.
Posted by: Lenny | July 9, 2008, 11:07 pm 11:07 pm
John McCain’s Son Served in Iraq. Who Knew?
Posted by: Sally | July 9, 2008, 11:08 pm 11:08 pm
Lenny WAY TOO FUNNY!!!!!!!!
Posted by: AngrynAnnoyed | July 9, 2008, 11:10 pm 11:10 pm
Jesse, DO NOT use that finger to stir your drink!
Posted by: BikernAz | July 9, 2008, 11:13 pm 11:13 pm
what is the big deal about fisa?
Posted by: melissa | July 9, 2008, 11:13 pm 11:13 pm
This comment is for geevil. First of all,reading your comments tell me that you are a racist, ignorant person because you are so full of hatred that you can’t even take the time to spell correctly. Who raised you? What is your background like. Let’s talk about you. Maybe if you and every other person with a negative comment took the time to work on themselves you wouldn’t even have the time or the energy to spew such negativity. How many skeletons lie in your closets. What are you hiding. Obviously, you have your own insecurities and struggles because you are trying to deflect them on Obama, Jesse, Rev Wright and everyone else you can think of to take the spotlight off of your own damaged,frail and weak lives. Spend some time trying to mend instead of breaking and tearing down because that is exactly what you are doing.
Posted by: truth | July 9, 2008, 11:24 pm 11:24 pm
We can see through Jackson’s words a real Obama!
Posted by: Tolkien | July 9, 2008, 11:41 pm 11:41 pm
Don’t underestimate these two men folks, do you really think they’re that stupid? It’s all part of the “gettin’ elected game.”
Posted by: ceister | July 9, 2008, 11:53 pm 11:53 pm
Yes, baal, Sharpton is essentially of the same cloth as Jesse. And vice versa.
Posted by: chicagowatcher | July 10, 2008, 12:04 am 12:04 am
Jackson is not entirely wrong. A POTUS candidate should be telling people what he plans to do, not what they should be doing. He is not running for bishop or school principal. Keep it professional, Obama.
Posted by: Dennis | July 10, 2008, 12:22 am 12:22 am
Hey Obama, if the shoe fits.
Posted by: Art in FL. | July 10, 2008, 12:25 am 12:25 am
Was Rev.Jackson a mentor for Obama?
Posted by: Atisha | July 10, 2008, 12:37 am 12:37 am
Apparently, Jesse Jackson Jr. has learned a lot from Obama, too. He threw his own father under the bus today in much the same manner as Obama has done with Wright, his grandmother, Wes Clark, etc.
Posted by: cappamore | July 10, 2008, 12:42 am 12:42 am
It is sad to think Jesse Jackson would even think such remarks when Obama has shown such dignity in his campaigning. And for him to disparage Obama, knowing how much Jackson jr. admires and supports him, makes it sound like sour grapes on Jesse Sr’s part. It is good to see that his negative attitude has not been passed on to the younger Jesse Jackson.
Posted by: Lydia | July 10, 2008, 12:59 am 12:59 am
Jr. interjected himself into this matter when it had nothing to do with him. He could have just kept quiet about it and let it blow over. It sounds as if he’s doing a little campaigning for himself.
Posted by: Dennis | July 10, 2008, 1:09 am 1:09 am
At least with Clinton we knew her from her past. I hope all you Obama supporters are feeling pretty stupid or duped by now, unless you are in denial. The Democrats will probably lose the election because it was too important to nominate a black ( sorry – half black ) candidate and not be a racist rather than elect the best person for the job. Amother give-a-way to the Republicans.
Posted by: island_style | July 10, 2008, 1:10 am 1:10 am
Keep crying, Obama haters. I love this stuff. I listened to Larry Elder today, quoting this story repeatedly and talking about it. The impact of his broadcast, however, was to make Obama sound like a moderate liberal who was being attacked by a firey radical liberal. I seriously wanted to call Elder and thank him and tell him to keep up the good work. My liberal home boys are finally taking a few pages from the Rove playbook. I’m not saying this was a setup, but if it was, it was genius!!
Posted by: Dantheguy9 | July 10, 2008, 1:24 am 1:24 am
It looks like Jesse Junior Sister Souljah’ed his own father. Good for him. I love them both. It’s interesting nonetheless to see the family dynamics play out in the public square.
Posted by: News Nag | July 10, 2008, 1:25 am 1:25 am
It’s a set-up between the two men to get Obama elected. The Jacksons will get something for it.
Posted by: csneeka | July 10, 2008, 1:27 am 1:27 am
Our Founding Fathers were right to want to keep religion and politics far apart. Why does Obama have to kiss up to the evangelicals? Doesn’t a Jew have the same rights as a Muslim, or a Mormon the same as a Buddhist? I thought “we hold these truths to be self-evident: that ALL men are created equal…” Religion has no business in a political campaign, nor do its leaders have any business trying to sway the vote. Jesse Jackson is a crude example of what happens when religion mixes with politics.
Posted by: Saoirse | July 10, 2008, 1:28 am 1:28 am
“At least with Clinton we knew her from her past.”
Yes, which is why we did not nominate her. With what I’ve heard from Obama since the nomination, I don’t know if I can vote for him. But I KNOW I would never vote for Hillary.
Posted by: Dennis | July 10, 2008, 1:30 am 1:30 am
Dantheguy9, I am very much a liberal. However, Obama is anything but. He might be more like Bush than is McCain.
Posted by: Dennis | July 10, 2008, 1:33 am 1:33 am
“more like Bush than is McCain.” Here it comes …
Posted by: Snarxon | July 10, 2008, 1:39 am 1:39 am
My fellow Anmericans you are for the first time in the history of this nation witnessing a presidential jihad.
Posted by: mmonroeliveson | July 10, 2008, 1:50 am 1:50 am
he is not just talking down to black families, he is talking down to the country.
Posted by: tr | July 10, 2008, 2:07 am 2:07 am
I never liked Jesse Jackson. I enjoy thinking how much he must be squirming while rationalizing an explanation for public consumption. Because of my attitude toward Jackson, it is best that Al Sharpton judge Jackson’s heart as he did with Don Imus
Posted by: Larry Croft | July 10, 2008, 2:24 am 2:24 am
Where can people hear the tape? Can the Freedom of Information Act be exercised? Americans want to hear it. From the picture, it appears like Obama is more concerned about the middle left hand finger that Jackson is going to use; or maybe Jackson is just coaching Obama on how to “…..connect the dots…..”.
Posted by: nocatnowaco | July 10, 2008, 2:38 am 2:38 am
The Obama Reverend problems continue… Jackson is perhaps not friends with Obama like the other pastors. This Reverend is only the his neighbor.
Posted by: Sylvia Johnsen | July 10, 2008, 2:45 am 2:45 am
Do I remember correctly that Jesse Jackson fathered an illegitimate child? Perhaps Obama’s remarks about fatherhood cut too uncomfortably close for Jesse Jackson and that was why he said what he did.
And when he was a young man, Jesse Jackson said the very same things Obama did about being black fathers taking responsibility. Perhaps there is some jealousy there about Obama stealing Jesse Jackson’s lines.
Who knows? I do know that as people get older they tend to lose their internal editors and say inappropriate things. I’m not sure if it is senility or, what to me is more obvious, the brain being deprived of oxygen for various reasons – heart disease, or what is termed “hardening of the arteries,” which I prefer to think of as “hardening of the oughteries.”
Posted by: Fed up in Washington state | July 10, 2008, 2:50 am 2:50 am
Jesse Jackson is an example of what happens when a manipulator cloaks himself in religion for the sake of political gain…
The purpose of preventing the governmental influence over religion that some misrepresent as mandating agnosticism in politicians was implemented to prevent governmental authority over religion and establishment of a “state” church but not to prevent men from having individual belief and value systems.
Posted by: Steve | July 10, 2008, 3:04 am 3:04 am
Cries for “seperation of church and state” in reference to politicians expressing their own personal faith are beyond moronic. Although I personally feel that a man’s actions speak louder than his words regarding his beliefs. There should be no inherent need to wear it on your sleeve. One’s policies and record should speak loud and clear to those who have a moral ear.
Posted by: Steve | July 10, 2008, 3:11 am 3:11 am
And it’s supposedly democrats who are sheep? At least they are comfortable enough to stand up to and oppose their candidate and his/her stances even while supporting all of the good things he represents. McCain stands for nothing but lies; about his voting record (recently lied to Vietnam Vets about his ‘support’ of increased health and education benefits), his economic credentials and plans (has none, and the ‘comprehensive plan’ is at odds with itself), supporting the elderly (while trying to cut their benefits), running a clean campaign (gag – it’s been the same old GOP fear and smear campaign so far, bringing energy relief (sorry, we need more than gimics), being presidential and having foreign affair credentials (while making jokes about bombing sovereign nations and killing people with cigarettes (Maybe Phillip Morris is one of his political backers, God knows that his ‘lobby free’ campaign is funded primary by corporations and other big donors, homeland security (anyone see the recent Taliban suspected attack on the embassy in Turkey?)
McCain is a joke and his supporters are at best ignorant and at worst are cut from the same cloth as the liars they represent.
If republicans actually cared about patriotism or their values they’d sit out, or vote for any candidate other than McCain who represents all that is wrong with politics and the falling conditions in America.
Anyone but McCain ’08
Posted by: mummblemouth | July 10, 2008, 3:20 am 3:20 am
Could this whole slip-up by Rev. Jackson be a set-up with the Obama campaign. This certainly changed the talk from Obama’s flip-flops and flop-flips to what Jackson said. And notice, Obama didn’t talk back, he did not mind the statement. One can not trust Obama or Jackson.
Posted by: Mary | July 10, 2008, 3:39 am 3:39 am
Yeah, it’s a set-up. Obama comes out looking like the victim. He and Jackson planned this to get pity votes. Jackson looks to coy in that video. Like he was intentionally whispering it, and then glancing over at the camera. And if elected, Obama will come out looking like the forgiving christian, and give this Jackson or his son a place in the administration.
Posted by: imnotfooled | July 10, 2008, 4:14 am 4:14 am
isn’t it funny how readily the Obama alliance accept apologies from people like jeremiah wright and jesse jackson? better watch out though, reverend jackson, he might change his mind about accepting your apology just like he did with reverend wright. so much for “family” mr. obama sir.
Posted by: Ginia | July 10, 2008, 4:23 am 4:23 am
This is getting rediculess. Reverands, could you please take a 4 month vacation or something? That would sure be nice.
Posted by: Scotti | July 10, 2008, 4:38 am 4:38 am
the reverend, thats a joke
Posted by: tom | July 10, 2008, 4:43 am 4:43 am
Am I the only deeply disturbed by the HARSH language Jackson’s son used on him??? It sounded like he had been looking for an excuse to pound his father…
Am I the only one that found his response and the invective excessiev and entirely inappropriate?!
Posted by: chch | July 10, 2008, 4:51 am 4:51 am
Arrogance is the mother to condescension and Obama is the father to arrogance.
Posted by: Mark | July 10, 2008, 5:02 am 5:02 am
help me understand; don imus makes disparaging comments about the rutgers’ ladies basketball team, and al sharpton and the black community goes crazy. the duke university lacrosse players are wrongly accused of rape against an african american ‘dancer’ and great reverend al and the black community goes crazy. and of course you all remember the tawana brawley incident from a few years back….
now we have a self-serving, narcissistic african american ‘reverend’ making disparaging comments about an african american man running for president, but where is the great reverend al during this controversy? hmmmmmmm……does anybody but me find that a bit curious?
Posted by: jeff | July 10, 2008, 5:09 am 5:09 am
help me understand; don imus makes disparaging comments about the rutgers’ ladies basketball team, and al sharpton and the black community goes crazy. the duke university lacrosse players are wrongly accused of rape against an african american ‘dancer’ and great reverend al and the black community goes crazy. and of course you all remember the tawana brawley incident from a few years back….
now we have a self-serving, narcissistic african american ‘reverend’ making disparaging comments about an african american man running for president, but where is the great reverend al during this controversy? hmmmmmmm……does anybody but me find that a bit curious?
Posted by: jeff | July 10, 2008, 5:09 am 5:09 am
Shouldn’t Jesse Jackson’s disparaging remarks get him fired like ‘imus’.Humm. I’m seeing a one sided situation here. And why is Obama encircling himself with people like this. Jesse Jackson is one sided in this world and it is called reverse discrimination. Didn’t he get caught with a prostitute once???
Posted by: J | July 10, 2008, 5:47 am 5:47 am
Jesse Jackson is a known racist. If any other candidate was seen with a known racist they would be put out to pasture.
Yes, I do see a double standard here.
Posted by: Charlie | July 10, 2008, 6:51 am 6:51 am
Unfortunately because of the cards Barrack has been dealt in life he has to live as what comes across as a ‘sellout’. In his struggle to discover himself – white or black? Christian or atheists? American or something else? – he will ‘sellout’ his position and group to impress or comfort the position of another group. Right now he is bold – selling Whites what they want to buy, and letting Blacks know he is selling them out – this is the tone of his speaking churches recently. Sadly, he has, and will likely go through life ‘selling-out’ because he has no true side to rest in or a solid identity. He is trying to portray himself as someone who is a little of everyone. But every decision he makes is to the benefit of one side or another. If you are a Barrack supporter and feel good hearing his current positions – prepare yourself, at some point in time he will sell you out too.
Posted by: outsideobserver | July 10, 2008, 7:02 am 7:02 am
To Rev. Jesse Jackson I would say: “Bridle your tongue.” You are a reverend and you do not live up to what is taught in the Bible?
Posted by: susan | July 10, 2008, 7:03 am 7:03 am
The truth hurts – Obama is what he is – Lotsa folks say them things but the media don’t report em.
Posted by: Gracie | July 10, 2008, 7:07 am 7:07 am
This sure shows what a joke Jesse Jackson is and how poor of a self-appointed “spokesperson” he is for American Blacks. Obama doesn’t talk down to American Blacks, THAT is what Jesse Jackson does. Obama speaks directly about being a person who depends on themselves to be successful. He is a leader of people, not a leader of followers.
Posted by: Joe | July 10, 2008, 7:27 am 7:27 am
Who cares, Jesse Jackson and Big ole’ Al are the biggest embarassment to the black race. As a black woman, I would not call on them for anything or have them back me on anything. Jesse is just still sore from his election running days. I read my bible faithfully everyday and none of the things things so called Revs are saying shows that they are reading theirs.
Posted by: Bobbi | July 10, 2008, 7:50 am 7:50 am
GOOD MORNING JETHRO
MAYBE THAT IS THE PROBLEM —JESSE SETTING WHAT ONE MUST CONSIDER A VERY POOR EXAMPLE—-
Posted by: rodney | July 10, 2008, 7:51 am 7:51 am
Jesse Jackson is not sorry he said what he said, he is sorry for getting recorded saying it. If JJ was a real man, he would step up and stand by his remarks. Alas, no, JJ is a little *, who is only thinking about retaining some sort of power in the American Black community and a continued sense of importance, instead of the long forgotten irrelevant person he is today.
Posted by: Joe | July 10, 2008, 8:02 am 8:02 am
What shocks me most is that a Christian minister would use such inappropriate language. No true person of God would speak like this.
Posted by: HMH | July 10, 2008, 8:12 am 8:12 am
I agree chch.
Personally I think that is really sad to see your own son had drank all that koolaid. I’m sure the Obama campaign pressed him to say something quickly, and gave him an eagle patch in the club fo rit. If his son was so embarassed, why say anything at all . most people don’t even know who he is or that he’s in the obama campaign. Now he’s just embarassed himself for being a part of this mess.
Posted by: lois | July 10, 2008, 8:12 am 8:12 am
obama is showing that his campain is not a colored thing–and is putting blame ad responsibility exactly where it should be—there are many whites who are also not standing up and taking responsibility—-however if he attacks them he is considered racist—most on here are nothing more than hyprocrits enjoying hearing themselves talk nonsense.stay in school and get a job.
Posted by: rodney | July 10, 2008, 8:16 am 8:16 am
listen,
I just watched the clip, and just watched jesse jackson on abc with jpt.
and mario c. I think you should hold up on your jesse should do this and that,
and barack is showing that he is a candidate for all. Think about it..
This was a bit staged, jesse jackson is an old pro at this. and if he wanted to say what he said off the mike, he would have taken extra time, to make sure the mike was off.
This was planned, the making up so quickly, it is just another in a long line of obama supporters running a play, flubbing it up, and obama coming out looking good from it to someone.
so wright,phleger,jesse jackson, and who knows who will be next.
I am not saying other politicians don’t pull such stunts, but these are so weak, and elememtary, you can see right through them.
we will see there will not be much fall out from this, all planned.
Posted by: Rk | July 10, 2008, 8:24 am 8:24 am
So now after the primaries, Obama swings and shifts to the center and abandons his roots. Jesse is just stating a fact!
Posted by: MDBIndiana | July 10, 2008, 8:24 am 8:24 am
Jesse is jealous because he feels he should be where Obama is. Jesse is nothing more than a wannabe anything that will give him fame: Politics and Religion. The title of Rev. is self anointed. Jesse is a good politician; he is crooked as they come. Even Mrs. King didnt care to be around him. I wonder why?
Posted by: beyetme | July 10, 2008, 8:25 am 8:25 am
So what if Jackson doesn’t like Obama? He’s an American citizen, he has the right to support any candidate he chooses. He has a right to keep his vote and his thoughts private. However, trusting the news media to keep something private wasn’t the wisest move in history.
I wouldn’t take Jackson’s remarks as a threat so I only have one problem with it. A man should have the guts to say publicly what he says privately. He shouldn’t say something privately then say the direct opposite in public. That’s called false witness in the Bible. Maybe the Good Reverend forgot that particular piece of literature, if he’s ever actually read it. In my mind Jackson’s credibility just went from low to zero. It’s all a Vaudeville performance.
Given Obama’s past votes as compared to what he says in the campaign it appears they have the same habits. Jackson and Obama should get along infamously.
Posted by: Royce | July 10, 2008, 8:28 am 8:28 am
anyone notice—jackson sounds just like mccain—–maybe they both must go.
Posted by: rodney | July 10, 2008, 8:32 am 8:32 am
Here is the deal. Obama has been keeping Jackson at arms length to get the white vote. Jessie is not happy with this but has no choice. To appease jessie Obama has let his son be involved with the campaign. When Jessie mede the comments his son was told what to say and did so. The thing that bothers me is what would happen to McCain if his white counterparts had been saying the things that Obamas black counterparts have been saying?? Would he even be in the race????
Posted by: billy bob | July 10, 2008, 8:32 am 8:32 am
Who cares about what Jesse Jackson said?
This comment should have been off the record and never discussed. Since it was, Jackson should stick by what he said.
Was it a lie? A lie from a minister?
If not he should not modify his comment at all.
Posted by: e148 | July 10, 2008, 8:32 am 8:32 am
What a great bunch of people to put in the white house. I don’t think so. McCain 08.
Hey Rob…..LOL
Posted by: B | July 10, 2008, 8:32 am 8:32 am
If Obama gets elected he can make Jessie his press secretary.
Posted by: billy bob | July 10, 2008, 8:37 am 8:37 am
also, this really gets rev. jackson back in the spotlight. If he is back in the spotlight, the issues that he is concerned about gets some attention.
now maybe obama has not been giving the issues that jackson stands for the right or enough attention. but right now jackson, is front and center, and next, we will have to listen to obama, talk about it for a minute. meanwhile, the really big issues for all of us, black and white, economy,gas, etc. and getting it clear where obama stands on these issues, gets sidelined.
Posted by: Rk | July 10, 2008, 8:38 am 8:38 am
Jackson and Abernathy are exactly alike, but at least Abernathy waited until MLK Jr. was dead to stab in the back. You had your turn Jesse leave Senator Barack Obama(soon to be President) alone.
Posted by: kirk786 | July 10, 2008, 8:43 am 8:43 am
Jackson is just afraid that all the complaining about not being a fair world will go away when an African American is elected president. That would be the ONLY GOOD thing about OBama being president, believe me. McCain 08!!!!
Posted by: M. Summer | July 10, 2008, 8:46 am 8:46 am
He apologieses for his hypocracy people, c’mon; I mean he’s only human…or is he?
Posted by: dobermanspencer | July 10, 2008, 8:50 am 8:50 am
Is the U.S. Secret Service, who is tasked with protecting the presidential candidates and upcoming nominees, investigating Jesse Jackson for what could easily be seen as a threat to the person of Mr. Obama?
Posted by: TedlyW | July 10, 2008, 8:51 am 8:51 am
Obama needs to be careful with who he associates with. Comments like this from Jesse could cost him precious votes. Someone like Jesse Jackson isn’t happy unless he is complaining about something, usually race related, and now he has turned on his own people….wouldn’t the world be a happier place without people like Jesse?!? What a waste, such a sad excuse for a human being!!!
Posted by: kristin1228 | July 10, 2008, 8:56 am 8:56 am
Jesse tells it like it is. The only reason he changed his tune is because a lot of black folks believe Obama’s lies and Jesse need their support. Obama is whatever he has to be to get elected. With Obama it is not about ideals, it is about power. Obama was not thrust into the limelight by us, white folks put him there and we need to remember that. Obama has shown that he will distance himself from anybody he percieves as a threat. Obama has moved to the center on almost everything and will move to the right if he has to. Hillary was more reliable and at least had a track record to check.
Posted by: Lewis | July 10, 2008, 8:57 am 8:57 am
So let me understand this, Jackson always speaks the truth in private. Then why is he apologizing? Is he telling Obama he’s sorry that he got caught? I don’t understand, if you believe in something, are you going to say it differently in private then what you would say in public. Looks like the Reverend is speaking out of both sides of his mouth – nothing new here. If you don’t to be heard saying it in public, then don’t say it privately. At least wait and say it privately to Obama.
Posted by: Don | July 10, 2008, 8:58 am 8:58 am
I am sure that Jesse Jackson is mad at Obama because he was a key supporter of Reverend Wright, et al, who are the very black leaders who turned their backs on MLK’s way of nonviolence and peace. These are not the people that the good Reverend Jackson associated with or affiliated his ideologies with. Anybody remember Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition? It was about diversity and acceptance.
Posted by: lois | July 10, 2008, 8:59 am 8:59 am
————–He didn’t take the high road, he never takes the high road. He just doesn’t have a telepromter and speech handy so he will let his minions do his mudslinging. Watch and see, his staff will make comments. His supporters as always just excuse anything about this guy. It is sad.
Posted by: cathy6224 | July 10, 2008, 9:14 am 9:14 am
Of course the Wright, jackson, and co don’t want Obama as president. they have base their own carrer on racial discrimination. If we are able to elect a president that come from diversity then were will go there preaching about injustice and so. if we elect obama the message will be if you want to get out of the bottom get to work.
Posted by: bottomUp | July 10, 2008, 9:17 am 9:17 am
Rev. Jesse Jackson has been a leader and spoksman for Black People since the early days of the Civil Rights Movement along with Rev. Martin Luther King, And Rev. Abernathy; although President Obama is in now in power lets NEVER FORGET that it was because of thier Faith in GOD, the struggles and Leadership of these great men mention above that Mr Obama can now stand in the places that he has found himself.
Posted by: Wake Up People | July 10, 2008, 9:17 am 9:17 am
Of course Jackson is entitled to his opinion but I personally like the fact that Obama is putting pressure on absent fathers, especially in the black community. The fact is he is speaking from experience. I work in a rather integrated company and have quite a few black friends and I know of the pain that absent fathers has caused in their community. My boys are on sports teams and school activities and I coach and deal with children from all backgrounds as a part of that. The missing men in these children’s lives leave a huge gap in their development and hurts their chances in the future. If more leaders in our communities would stress th need for strong families, the better our society would be. Obama has been stressing this in his words and writings and this is not something Jackson or any other “leader” should be disparaging.
Posted by: Tommy Thompson | July 10, 2008, 9:17 am 9:17 am
Notice how they don’t even bother to transcript what exactly Jackson said? I guess ABCnews did their “duty” by reporting the bare minimum on this story.
Posted by: Gmoney | July 10, 2008, 9:18 am 9:18 am
This is a Choreographed STUNT – Plain and Simple
Yes it was on FoxNews. Yes it appeared that Jackson was unaware.
However, the Obama campaign is extremely sophisticated in their approach about Obama’s Race.
Proof: Jackson referred to ‘Black People’ in the Third Person instead of saying, ‘Us.’
If its perceived that Jackson inadvertently said what he said. Mainstream Whites and Cosby Blacks will agree w/ Obama’s assessment of personal responsibility for the Black Family.
This is a message that Obama stayed away from in his Primary battle vs. Hillary. Instead he lectured Whites,Asians, Mexicans, Jews and Non-Blacks on racism when his Pastor Wright(Black) used Racist terminology.
Now, that he has the nomination – Obama wants it to ‘leak’ out that he wants Black Men to be more responsible fathers.
Like I said, Obama’s campaign is highly sophisticated.
And fortunately or unfortunately – His Staged Dramas w/ Wright and Jackson have been bought by most Americans.
He Gotcha!
Posted by: Jacob Ezekial | July 10, 2008, 9:23 am 9:23 am
Jesse Jackson is a hypocrite of the first order!!! I think his comments were disgusting and showed a total lack of stupidity on his part. Jesse said what he said and he meant what he said. The only reason he’s apologizing is because he got caught. Jesse can keep his lame “A$$” apology and crawl back under a rock. Bill Cosby made comments similiar to Sen Obama’s, but Jesse didn’t attack him…Remember Jesse is the same guy that brought his girlfriend to the Whitehouse when he was providing spiritual counseling to Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Jesse has the nerve to comment on morals…
Posted by: whcjr46 | July 10, 2008, 9:29 am 9:29 am
I can’t believe the softball questions Chris Cuomo delivered to Jesse Jackson. He practically apologized for the man before beginning the interview. He asked one question about the comments and then let Jackson pontificate about policies that needed to change. What a disappointment.
Posted by: melissa | July 10, 2008, 9:32 am 9:32 am
Jackson is an irrelevant, mean-spirited, fool. Obama should have said exactly that.
Posted by: Steve77 | July 10, 2008, 9:32 am 9:32 am
Why would ANYONE say anything not appropriate with a microphone live or otherwise strapped to them? Jesse Jackson is a seasoned politician and knows the game. His remarks seemed out of place even to the person sitting next to him. What were the two of them discussing before Jesse spoke those ridiculous words? Jackson fathered a child out of wedlock and he speaks of the removal of someone’s testicles? The man continues to be a disgrace to his family, his organization, and to the Black community. He got what he wanted – fifteen minutes more.
MamaDo
Posted by: MamaDo | July 10, 2008, 9:33 am 9:33 am
Press on Obama. We need children taken care of and support from the fathers to help with the upbringing of children across this country. It is a disgrace how these sperm donors act and they do need better assistance with correcting the problem. Jail is not the answer. OBAMA 08
Posted by: MizzNikki | July 10, 2008, 9:40 am 9:40 am
Of course Jackson would complain about Obama’s comments. After all, he fairly recently fathered a daughter outside of his marriage. I expect Jackson to say EXACTLY what he did.
Posted by: swaregirl | July 10, 2008, 9:41 am 9:41 am
The “softball” interview this morning by liberal Cuomo was insulting. No hard questions just fawning over him and letting him filibuster the time. If this were a white republican it would have been bloody. No hammering about what he said. If he didn’t believe what he said, why did he say it? No questions like this at all. “News” my butt!!! The pandering was in full swing at ABC this morning.
Posted by: eagle1 | July 10, 2008, 9:52 am 9:52 am
Let’s get this straight. A somewhat privledged guy who was an illegitimate,absentee father is critcizing another guy who says fathers must take personal responsibility saying it’s really the government’s fault? Jesse Jackson, Sr. despite his ethnic backround, has had many more privledges (and money) than the average lower middle-class American, black, white, brown or whatever color, is just as guilty of being an absentee father as any guy in the projects. He has the gall to say Obama who is urging personal responsibility as a way to lift up the African-American community (as well as any other lower middle-class community a nasty name?? Sorry Jesse, Obama is correct right along with Bill Cosby. Quit urging victimhood on people. You are not doing anyone any favors.
Posted by: Not an Obama Fan | July 10, 2008, 9:52 am 9:52 am
Jesse Jackson for once in his life has spoken the truth. Hmmm, it appears miraculous things do occur. Still, it does not change the fact that Jesse Jackson is a cad and an idiot.
Barack Obama is a user. He has and will use anyone to get what he wants, then he discards them when they are no longer useful to him. Barack Obama is a very dangerous fellow.
Ralph Nader is looking great from my perspective.
Posted by: OpusRooster | July 10, 2008, 9:58 am 9:58 am
I couldn’t agree with Tommy Thompson more. Read his comments now. The number one problem infecting the black community is absentee fathers, and any message to the contrary is just a distraction from the real solution of parental responsibility. Thank God Obama is pushing that agenda instead of the self-destructive one pushed by Jackson and his croneys who thrive on racism, unrest, and intolerance. We don’t need people like Jesse leading the black community. Please step down and let the intellegent, problem solving, truth telling Obama take the stand.
Posted by: Falco | July 10, 2008, 9:59 am 9:59 am
Rev. Jackson is at the Black Expo today in Indpls. He is a poor role model for the Black community. In fact his actions are not what is expected of a minister! His even thinking the crude remarks is bad enough….but to he say them on an open mike–is inexcusable! His moral character does not stand scrutiny as well. Why doesn’t he realize he is a “has been”?
Posted by: senior 78 | July 10, 2008, 10:01 am 10:01 am
HOORAY,for Obama.You is handling things very well,don’t mine what people say about you ,you are a wonderful person,daddy,husband.We admire you highly.Jesse sit back to see another one of Dr. Martin Luther King dreams come true
Posted by: wanda | July 10, 2008, 10:09 am 10:09 am
OpusRooster, look at Jackson’s past campaigns. He ran on a progressive platform that I think you’d approve of. And I agree, Nader is looking good.
Posted by: jimbo | July 10, 2008, 10:23 am 10:23 am
I think that Rev Jackson should stick by his comment. I am a democrate, black woman, and closer to 50 than 40. I told my family last year that Obama was arrogant against black people. I said this after listening to his answers to some questions. If he wasn’t for men like Jessie Jackson, Obama would not be where he is today. So we should not dismiss is contribution to America. I know a lot of Black people that wanted Hillary but are scared to say it, because of the pressure for all Blacks to be for Obama(John Lewis). Jessie said what I have though all along. Obama looks down on Blacks who have not made it. Yes we should take care of our children and keep out families togather. I don’t know the tone of his comments but what I hear sometimes is belittling. When he made those comment is San Fransico about people hanging on to their guns and religion it all ties in, and hushed up by the media. I wanted the first woman or black man, but now I just want the best person to get us out of this mess.
Posted by: janice | July 10, 2008, 10:24 am 10:24 am
Looks like Jesse & Al might be upset with The Great Obamalarky because if he is elected their victim gigs will be finished. But the question is, what will happen to all of that white guilt….????? DNC stop this embarassing Obama drama now at the convention – there is still time!!!!!!!!
Posted by: fairelection2008 | July 10, 2008, 10:26 am 10:26 am
Obama has integrity and class, it’s great that he’s taking absent fathers to task.
Thumbs down on Jackson, for crying out loud he is supposed to be a Reverend and a moral compass for the community. The Obama family wins that position hands down and Jackson is just resentful at this demotion in stature.
Posted by: Citizen Voter | July 10, 2008, 10:26 am 10:26 am
Obama needs to give up. At this point I don’t think the DNC is going to back him any way.
Posted by: rogersm234 | July 10, 2008, 10:32 am 10:32 am
I apologize for the grammar errors, but I am passionate about this. I am tired of the whinning. I watched the Clintons go from being friends of Black Pleople to being racist in a matter of weeks. The media made it seem like everything they said was racist. If we are going to be political, we have to get smater Black People, and really listen to what is being said and why. My goodness I have so much to say about this but I know I can’t take up all the space.
Posted by: Janice | July 10, 2008, 10:37 am 10:37 am
Jackson calls himself a man of hope. Who responds to another person’s opinions by saying “I wanna cut his #### off”?
Even more ludicrous is within Jackson’s apology/statement…”In this case, my error was responding to a question before a live mic.”
WRONG!!!!
It is the content of what you said that is important not merely the fact you said it to a live mic.
This is proof enough that Jesse Jackson should no longer have a mic to throw this type of babel at.
Posted by: hask29 | July 10, 2008, 10:50 am 10:50 am
Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, John Lewis are all relics of the past..who rode on MLK Jr. coattails and who’s day is up..the sun is setting, take a bow and exit the stage.. Let the new politics and leadership take over.. pat on the back.. good job..bye bye
Posted by: Lawrence | July 10, 2008, 11:06 am 11:06 am
Jesse Sr. is correct and I agree with the post of Haskins in this blog, we as black people have no underlying devotion to anyone or anybody. We change quicker than the weather and that is why our vote means very little and has little substance. Rev. Jackson told it like it is, and many black think because a man a 10% (or less) black in him that he is the answer to all of their problems. Wrong, Obama is a elitist and raised white. He then realized some in the white community didnt accept him at an early age and sought out the SOuth Side of Chicago strictly for Political Gain. I aint mad at him but call it what it is. A opportunist looking for a way. A great speaker, but look closely at his RECORD black people and visit or review the area of Springfield he represented. ANY LANDMARD APPRAISALS here. No, not one and many votes he refused to vote Yeah or NAy. THis is not a pattern of success and the people in his district will tell much is still the same. Sure he is an inspirational speaker, that is all we have seen. We have yet to see any action to back up those words and just yesterday all of the Black People were calling Bill CLinton our first black president, You guys are a HYPOCRISY!! and hilarious.
Posted by: Fred23 | July 10, 2008, 11:06 am 11:06 am
Rev. Jackson must have been stung being such an “exemplary” father.
Posted by: Mary Anne | July 10, 2008, 11:13 am 11:13 am
Obama has “talked down” to Black people throughout his campaign by avoiding real solutions to working people’s problems,demanding uncritical loyalty, and giving nothing in return.
It goes deeper than encouraging parental responsibility, and supporting faith-based bribes. Obama is satisfied running as a symbol, but sells out when expedient,like he did with the housing developments in Chicago, which he helped privatize, and let fall into deplorable conditions. This displaced the same blacks who ran to support him, and benefitted people like Rezco and other Chicago money-grubbers.
More recently,Obama had a chance to support a 90-day moratorium on home foreclosures, but caved to his Wall Street special interests.
Obama has always dumbed down the conversation, and trained blacks voters to shut up and support him…or else.
Posted by: 12SpeakOut | July 10, 2008, 11:53 am 11:53 am
This mistake was while going on a Fox News Show. O’Reilly last night said they have more comments that are much worse but he doesn’t want to pile on Jackson. I think Fox has an obligation to air it all.
Posted by: Don | July 10, 2008, 12:06 pm 12:06 pm
The media doesn’t care that this was a Jackson-Obama set up. It’s news and ratings either way.
It’s up to us, as intelligent Americans, to recognize that Jackson, who began his media career in 1968 and has used his media savvy to build an empire, would never, ever make such outrageous remarks while wearing a mic unless it was a planned act.
Jackson knows mics are always potentially hot, if for no other reason than to catch off-the-cuff remarks from people like him.
This was a planned campaign act to attempt to boost Obama in the white community. Obama knows he has the black vote wrapped up no matter what he says and does.
Wake up, folks. You are being manipulated by P.T. Obama.
Posted by: Tye | July 10, 2008, 12:11 pm 12:11 pm
This is all so aggevating to read. Black people or African Americans or whatever they want to call themselves these days should wake up to the fact that they need to make changes within themselves to become successful and more accepted. Many people from other countries & cultures have come to the US and worked hard to get where they are. For instance the Jews after the holocoust, the penniless hispanics from poor countries, the polish… They have come here, work hard and are accepted and successful. They aren’t concentrating on “oh poor me” and relying on govenrment to take care of them. Skin color doesn’t matter. Although I won’t vote for Obama because of other issues, he is right. The African Americans need to stop thinking about what we should be doing for them and start improving their own lives so others look at them with less condensending eyes. There is a reason they are looked at the way they are. One of the big ones is Jesse Jackson. He says he is trying to gain equality for blacks. He is making it worse. He is certainly no MLK. Too bad this election is turning into a racial election as opposed to who the best candidate is!
Posted by: Ann | July 10, 2008, 12:14 pm 12:14 pm
So Jesse, who previously shook down the Obama campaign to his son a job shoots off at the mouth and gets caught. When are people going to recognize what this fool is all about. It is well documented how he has used the race card to get what he wants with no personal investment of time, effort, or money. His latest shake down involves the merger of Sirius and XM. He has informed the FCC and the Justice Department that he will not file a complaint if 20% of the channels are dedicated to “minority programming”. I wonder which relative will be responsible for the programming on these stations. I guess all the hip hop, Jamie Fox channels, et al. is not enough for this free loader. Is he going to promise all African Americans reparations for slavery too? Here is a thought, Africans enslaved Africans for centuries. Want another, be thankful you were born in the USA and not Darfur, Zimbawe, Nigeria, etc…… Stop blaming everyone else and take responsibility for yourself.
Posted by: The Man | July 10, 2008, 12:50 pm 12:50 pm
Since when did skin color matter? Why can’t we focus on the person instead of their looks? Will we discriminate against hair color next? What about eye color?
Posted by: amazingViolin | July 10, 2008, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm
Not that a person cannot make a mistake, even one as huge as fathering a child outside of his marriage, however it does weaken Rev. Jackson’s ability to speak on issues such as personal responsibility when he himself lacked the moral fiber to “just say no.” From the looks of it, Presidential Candidate Barak Obama is a good, wholesome family man who loves his wife and children. Is he perfect? No. But, he is the perfect one to speak to the African American male community about personal responsibility. He’s only “talking down” to those men who are refusing to step up. To the rest of us, we’re not offended. What office was Jessie Jackson elected to by any one, or what church does he pastor that he should presume to speak as a leader for the African American community. As for the “passion” that Jackson speaks of, we don’t need passion, we’ve had years of that and no “action.” Obama brings solutions to all people. He message speaks to white men who have abandoned their children also.
Posted by: Sandi | July 10, 2008, 3:59 pm 3:59 pm
Shame on him, Obama has to be careful, Jesse Jackson is not reliable, as far as I am concerned Jackson is flip flop politician so Obama has to be cautious on those kind of politician.
Posted by: Yohannes | July 10, 2008, 4:11 pm 4:11 pm
This goes to show one that regardless of how Jesse Jackson portrays himself publically he is just another human being who one has to build trust in and see him for his works. Personally I don’t care for the guy~
Posted by: quilts4m2nv | July 10, 2008, 4:36 pm 4:36 pm
I can’t make any comment except:
Heh heh heh. It’s just funny, very funny. I love this kind of stuff…I don’t care who is hurt or helped by it, it just cracks me up…
Posted by: Wade | July 10, 2008, 7:47 pm 7:47 pm
IM Shocked AL SHARPTON hasn’t shown his ugly head and is not OUTRAGED over Jackson’s comments.
IMMUS ROLLING ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING>
Posted by: Who Knows So What Who Cares | July 10, 2008, 10:02 pm 10:02 pm
I agree that Obama is sinking and has dug his own grave and digging deeper every day! Let’s take away his salary and rights as a politician, make him middle class and then see if he finds it funny when a politician such as himself stands up criticizing black middle class citizens…
Posted by: forthright | July 10, 2008, 10:22 pm 10:22 pm
Berating Obama for urging PEOPLE to be more responsible shows Jesse Jackson’s envy for Obama, his lack of morals and his guilt for his OWN irresponsible ways (fathering a child out of wedlock). He felt Obama’s words were a direct insult to him. It is no secret that there are serious issues that need to be addressed in the Black community…and there are similar issues in other communities as well. If we ALL work towards improving ourselves, our families, and our communities we can make a significant difference in the world as a whole. It could have an impact on crime rates, the economy, the family structure, HIV cases, etc… EVERYONE can beneifit from this. We ALL need to be more socially and personally responsible…no matter what color you are. And if African -Americans have a problem with Obama or Cosby’s words (We need a change and more responsibile fathers in our community), that’s where part of the problem lies…within themselves. When you stand up to help yourself others are more incline to help you. African Americans will have to contend with injustices from the womb to the tomb, but we should never lie down and give up. We are descendents of Kings, Queens and Warriors…be more prideful, united and honorable. Come on my People!! Obama 08′
Posted by: blackbeauty | July 13, 2008, 3:28 pm 3:28 pm
I see this for what it is another attempt to divide the country and keep America head down the toilet. Rev. Jesse Jackson came in on the coat tail of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., he in and of himself dose not have any qualifications in the smallest {no legal standing to call himself a leader, not that he hasn’t tried} when he was trying to run for office his mouth got him into trouble. The fact that he is even on TV speaks to the lack of true or perceived leadership in the African American community. Yes, we have had some problems in deciding what we want to be called . After years of being in the dark when you come into the light it takes a little time to adjust to the light that why all the different name for our race nevertheless I think we have it right now. If you think a good leader would lie to you then you have the wrong man in President Obama. What good leader when given the opportunity to speak would not say you have the power to make your own environment better, regardless of what ever happens these are the changes that can make you better? When President Obama responded to what his former Pastor said he told everybody then that yes there has been racism in the past that has play a big part in the condition of African Americans, but speaking to African Americans he talked about what we need to do as a people to help ourselves, God bless him for it. I could careless what you people do but if you want to change the status quo you need to elitist Obama’s ideas and methods because if you haven’t checked lately we are all in the same boat.
Posted by: LaChala | July 13, 2008, 10:41 pm 10:41 pm
I personal feel that maybe the “Rev” should be taken off Jesse Jackson name because the question is: Is he really acting like a minister of God?
Posted by: JuLaw45 | August 8, 2008, 8:47 am 8:47 am
I welcome Senator Barack Obama, as the leader of the Democratic Party. He deverves respect and should be respected by all. He happen to be the one who is ripping the profit of all those who preceded him, including Rev. Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Nevertheless, it is an unfortunate twist of tongue, politicians do, a time. Although, unofficial, people should not take it seriously.
I have great respect for both leaders. I do sincerely hope we will continue to march ” hand in hand” until the final victory we all have been waiting for centuries ago. Forward! should be our cry. Peace and Unity among ALL American Citizen! America deserve the BEST!
Let’s give it!
Respectfully.
Max.
Posted by: Mr. Max Saint-Cyr | August 22, 2008, 10:21 am 10:21 am
I work in broadcast…this was not a stunt. Things like this happen quite a bit. They just aren’t usually worth airing.
Posted by: Sar | September 22, 2008, 11:44 am 11:44 am
Two people must fade into obscurity after this election: Sarah Palin and Jesse Jackson.
Posted by: ReignForrest | November 12, 2008, 10:37 pm 10:37 pm
First let me say, everyone had to know Jesse was going to be mad. Lets face it how many times has he ran for President and failed.. I think in this day and time anyone should be able to speak his or her mind. However that doesnt mean we want to hear it. I think Obama has a lot of issues left over from Bush, I say let our president do his job and those who feel they need someone to hold their hand, call some one who cares. Who has been holding Jesse hands from his first lost when running for preseident? One last thing, I am proud we have a African American President, Jesse the reason you didnt win is you were not the right man for the job!! Obama you are doing a great job cont. to hold that head high!!!!!
Posted by: Jennifer | July 2, 2009, 7:39 pm 7:39 pm